Subject: Re: [lojban] le jbozgi be la'o <Lobster Quadrille>

From: Invent Yourself <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:00:22 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Rob Speer wrote:
> li'o
> >A chord could be named by its notes, but you'd just have to use longer names.
> >So perhaps G would be "mijyste" or "tigypre" and F7 would be <ai.o'upei>.
>
> "tigypre" means "performer-person" and it would cause unacceptable confusion to
> give it the additional totally unrelated meaning of a musical chord. Similarly
> for "mijyste" which could be used in the description of an algorithm to find the
> median. "ai.o'upei" is an attitudinal question and can't be used to name
> anything. The proper way to name notes, I think, is with letterals.

Think of it as a mnemonic for the note.

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