From phma@oltronics.net Mon Jun 18 17:05:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 19 Jun 2001 00:05:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 75625 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2001 00:04:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 19 Jun 2001 00:04:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.15) by mta3 with SMTP; 19 Jun 2001 00:04:36 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id B3A603C568; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:04:29 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Back and rear Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:58:33 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <9gm481+i9dl@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <9gm481+i9dl@eGroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061820042904.22196@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, thinkit8@lycos.com wrote: >--- In lojban@y..., Pierre Abbat wrote: >> How do you distinguish back and rear in Lojban? >> >> phma > >well, back is already ti'a. for "rear", how about ti'a ca'u? I'm talking brivla, not tenses. We have trixe, which appears to be back, but is also glossed rear. Humans are oriented differently than most mammals, so we get confused talking about backs, rears, and fronts, so we have come up with dorsal, ventral, anterior, and posterior so as not to get confused. How do you make this distinction in Lojban? phma