[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
love, liking, etc.
- To: cbmvax!uunet!decwrl.dec.com!fernwood!well!jeannec (Jeanne C. Stapleton)
- Subject: love, liking, etc.
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 16:54:39 EST
- Apparently-From: snark!cowan
- In-Reply-To: <9102271828.AA21369@well.sf.ca.us>; from "Jeanne C. Stapleton" at Feb 27, 91 10:28 am
Jeanne C. Stapleton writes:
> The discussion here has been so
> ****ing right-brained, with everybody trying to flog each other to death
> with reams of information, splitting hairs.
Left-brained, I think you mean. Language is inherently such a function.
> I'll pipe up again when we start working out all the different types of
> words we need for what "love" now covers in English, "amour" in French,
> whatever the equivalent expression is in Chinese.
Why not start now? All you really need is a gismu list (if you need that
by email, ask). The two basic words are:
prami A loves B
nelci A likes / is fond of B
but Lojban's compounding power make all kinds of 2-place tanru useful and
interesting:
cinse prami A sexually loves B
is the obvious starting place, but a determined search of the gismu list
will turn up lots more.
--
cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan
e'osai ko sarji la lojban