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Re: [lojban] a Fullerian insight for jbopre
Dnia poniedziałek, 8 września 2014 10:25:49 tijlan pisze:
> "World-around" is a term coined by Fuller to replace "worldwide". The
> general belief in a flat Earth died out in classical antiquity, so
> using "wide" is an anachronism when referring to the surface of the
> Earth--a spheroidal surface has area and encloses a volume but has no
> width. Fuller held that unthinking use of obsolete scientific ideas
> detracts from and misleads intuition. Other neologisms collectively
> invented by the Fuller family, according to Allegra Fuller Snyder, are
> the terms "sunsight" and "sunclipse", replacing "sunrise" and "sunset"
> to overturn the geocentric bias of most pre-copernican celestial
> mechanics.
So... a Whorfian by heart?
> Fuller also invented the word "livingry," as opposed to weaponry (or
> "killingry"), to mean that which is in support of all human, plant,
> and Earth life. "The architectural profession--civil, naval,
> aeronautical, and astronautical--has always been the place where the
> most competent thinking is conducted regarding livingry, as opposed to
> weaponry."
If he was Polish he wouldn't have to invent these. In the Polish language "weapon" is "broń" which has the same root as "bronić", meaning "to defend, to prevent". But wait! It goes deeper! "To arm" is "zbroić" which has the same root as "zbroja", meaning "an armor". But does that mean we're all pacifist? Heck no ;) That's one of the reasons that in my very humble opinion Fuller was wrong, or at least criminally simplistic.
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