Re: [lojban] Direction of Rotation

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:03:11AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> >>
> > Exactly. But Robin suggested making {carna}  obsolete.
> > Therefore, I'm suggesting a new gismu that would cover all those
> > meanings including {ti carna}.
> >
> 
> No, Robin suggested making Lojban have one word for "turn", and
> one for "rotate". This would mean making carna mean one of the
> two, and making a new word for the other.
> 
> In other words, going from:
> 
> carna : x1 turns/rotates/revolves around axis x2 in direction x3.
> 
> To:
> carna : x1 turns from x2 to x3
>
> gutni : x1 is rotating counter-clockwise viewed from orientation x2 about
> rotational axis/axes (set if multiple) x3
> 
> This is what was discussed in the chat.

Oh that's a *fantastic* solution to salvaging carna!  I love it!  I
couldn't figure out a way to salvage it.

Now, someone has to go through the uses of carna at
http://www.lojban.org/corpus/ and see how many significantly
disagree with that version.

(and then ping me, because I'm mostly not reading this thread,
sorry)

-Robin

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