Re: [lojban] Direction of Rotation

[la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:11:18 AM UTC+4, Robin Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:06:00PM -0400, Mike S. wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
> > rlpo...@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.
>
> Yes, of course, but we have to make old usage continue to work, is
> the problem.

{carna} definition has been translated to 5 languages: spanish, esperanto, hungarian, russian...

Why not make {carna} obsolete and create one new new sweet-sounding gismu?

> -Robin
>
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