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Re: [lojban] Direction of Rotation



On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:03:11AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> 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
>

Nice, but I might suggest x1 turns _towards_ x2 from (facing) x3

The destination is usually more salient than the origin, cf. klama, bevri, etc. 

lo pezli cu carna la solri

 

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