From lojbab@lojban.org Wed Mar 1 06:13:06 2000 X-Digest-Num: 380 Message-ID: <44114.380.2105.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 09:13:06 -0500 From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" Subject: Re: 2 lujvo At 11:36 AM 02/29/2000 -0800, michael helsem wrote: >1) there is a word i am using, "sharawadgi", to indicate things >which contain opposites such as a pattern of red & green, or >hot & cold (Baked Alaska), ktp. i am thinking the way to say >this in Lojban is 'opposite-quality-conjunction-quality' DUTKAIRKAXYKAI. The original example in Loglan of what is now joi referred to the stereotypical multicolored beach ball. This suggests something like dutki gunma as a metaphorical basis. >2) if one tends to count by fives of things (as we think in >"twos" (opposites), would this be: 'five-basis' MUMCMU, 'fivesome-basis' >MUMEMCMU; or would the latter become, as a >lujvo, MUMYMEMCMU ? > >3) & also, how to talk about thinking-in terms of-a given >count-as basic? 'basic unit of counted things' CMUTERKANCU, or >'basic set of things counted' CMUSELKANCU ? (i am leaning >toward the latter). I would base both 2 and 3 on kancu, but have not thought deeply about it. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org (newly updated!)