[lojban] Re: No gismu for Difference

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

Next, why you choose the gloss "to subtract". Whats the proposed definition?

x1 is a difference/result of subtraction of x3 from x2 ?

Then the glossword should be "difference"

Bulgarian: разлика (bg) f

Czech: rozdíl (cs) m

Danish: differens (da) c

Dutch: verschil (nl) n

Esperanto: diferenco

Finnish: erotus (fi)

French: différence (fr) f

German: Differenz (de) f

Hebrew: הפרש (hefresh) m

Indonesian: selisih

Italian: differenza (it) f

Japanese: 差 (さ, sa)

Persian: اختلاف (fa) (extelâf), تفاضل (fa) (tafâzol)

Polish: różnica (pl) f

Romanian: diferență (ro) f

Russian: разность (ru) (ráznost’) f, разница (ru) (ráznitsa) f

Slovene: razlika (sl) f

Spanish: diferencia (es) f

Swedish: differens (sv) c, skillnad (sv) c

Telugu: భేదము (bhaedamu)

As for Mandarin it is cha1shu4

Of course we can play with  the sounds a bit but in order to get a better mnemonic we have to choose either chinese or romance etymology.

So I suggest either {tcacu}/{tcaco} (.uinaisai it clashes with {tcaci}) or {difro} (final -o is normal for mekso gismu).

However, selsumji seems fine to me. But if you do really want to add it to jvs please consider that jian3 is not suitable.

oh i forgot to provide a link to Mandarin word. 

http://cdict.net/?q=+%E5%B7%AE%E6%95%B0

subja = x1 is the difference, x2 minus x3

If there were other suggestions for a potential gismu for this in the past, I'd like to know them. If there were none, I'll probably add this to jbovlaste within a few days.

.i mi'e la tsani mu'o

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