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Re: [lojban] Direction of Rotation



On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:13:35PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I don't know which of the many messages contains the point I'm
> replying to, so here goes:
> 
> "carna", as it stands now, does not imply a continuous rotation.
> If I am standing, and I turn 60 degrees on my vertical axis to
> face the door, I carna, just as much as the hard drive in my
> computer cu carna. But "carna" does not have a place for the
> orientation when the rotation is finished, which is why we need a
> new word.

Yes indeed.

It's also really really hard to use as currently written, for *any*
purpose.

-Robin

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