Then I must have weird eyes, because I don't see them that way.
And photographs do show points on stars, especially very bright ones.stevo--On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:2015-04-15 17:27 GMT+03:00 MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>:Gleki, you said "Anyway, I can't see any language that would distinguish them probably because human eye sees every star in the sky except the Sun with protrusions i.e. as a "star polygon"."I disagree. I would say that people see NO star (or planet) as having protrusions. They're just bright points. Camera/photographic artifacts do add points sometimes.No, human eye does see them with protrusions. Camera obviously doesn't.Human eye sees them that way. That's how it is constructed.stevo--On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:2015-04-15 7:39 GMT+03:00 Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>:The word "star" is polysemous:
1. a heavenly body that emits light;
2. a non-convex shape that has a point from which all the inside can be seen;
3. a chief or excellent performer.
Sense 1 is {tarci}. Sense 3 could be expressed by a lujvo, which I won't worry
about right now. Sense 2, I think, deserves a gismu, but doesn't have one.
I think that sense 2 deserves a gismu because it appears in several compounds:Definition: x1 is a star non-convex polygon with x2 (number) regular pointy protrusions and x2 indentations.
Or should we use a separate brivla for x2 to parallel other geometrical mostly one-place brivla (ignoring "material" places)?
Or put it another way should geometry brivla parallel each other in their place structure?
A separate question how do we define star being a regular one? Using {kubli}, right?
Anyway, I can't see any language that would distinguish them probably because human eye sees every star in the sky except the Sun with protrusions i.e. as a "star polygon".
{stela} and {estrela} come to mind but they are taken by semantics of {tarci} so it's be impolite to steal them. {stelatai} maybe.
Asterisk would be probably {astrisko}.
Also I can't find a word for "celestial body" in general like "planet/star/dwarf planet/comet", {se kensa} is probably enough but {astro} hasnt been taken by anything yet.
starfish, star-nosed mole, stellated polyhedron. What do you think? What would
be a good word for it?Something that would have mnemonic power but wouldn't be a false friend. E.g. in Esperanto they usually change a vowel or a consonant so that two meanings get separated.
Pierre
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