In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... "Xufap" can also mean 'happen', in the sense of "be real", and may be a better choice here, or...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... I wasn't sure what the NSM term meant, so I included both the transitive and intransitive. In...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... 'Walk' is "timep". Neither "tisep" nor "timep" could normally be used in "it goes on and on",...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... "Above" is "wikod". "Wimid" is "on (the surface of), upon, in contact with and supported by",...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... I based these words for "if" on Lojban equivalents. The Latejami basic word for "if" is...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, veoler@... ... "Zik" is the first word beginning with "zi-". Part-of-speech endings are ...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... I don't understand your question. Could you rephrase it? Saweli has several words that...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, veoler@... ... Not according to Wierzbicka (_Semantics: Primes and Universals_, pp. 97-99). ...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... Actually, "yaris" is the noun form of "yarik", but the NSM form seems to be more adjective than...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... Yes, it's the open adjective suffix, equivalent to Latejami "yu". I have some concerns about...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 22:14:49 Eastern Daylight Time, ... Okay, then maybe "bavasi zok" (plural) is better for "people". "Bavasu" (generic) means...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 22:18:35 Eastern Daylight Time, ... Ah, yes, it is strictly members of Carnivora, not just any collection that English calls a...
... Well, since you put vo'amik, vo'amlok, and vu'abek as translations of "small", but only vubek as "big", and not vomik and vomlok, which parallel your...
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Apr 10, 2009 1:00 pm
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In a message dated 4/10/2009 09:00:51 Eastern Daylight Time, veoler@... ... vomik = extensive, sizable, vast, large, big, considerable [in area]. vomlok...
... I have yet to study Lojban. Could you explain them? -- Veoler...
Veoler
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Apr 17, 2009 11:23 am
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... "resu bavak" then? My impression of NSM is that it is a generic noun, not plural. (Shouldn't "bavasu" be synonymous to "resu bavak", since human beings are...
Veoler
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Apr 17, 2009 11:37 am
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... Yes. If the classifier is supposed to always be semantically precise then it doesn't make sense, since a group of carnivores isn't a kind of carnivore....
Veoler
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Apr 17, 2009 11:48 am
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In a message dated 4/17/2009 07:37:29 Eastern Daylight Time, ... It's possible that NSM PEOPLE is generic, rather than plural. I've always had doubts about...
In a message dated 4/17/2009 07:49:02 Eastern Daylight Time, ... Here's what ram says in section 3.6 of _The Lexical Semantics of a MachineTranslation...
In a message dated 4/17/2009 07:37:29 Eastern Daylight Time, ... In general "resu bavak" ('human person' [generic]) is indeed synonymous with "bavasu" ('human...
In a message dated 4/17/2009 07:23:56 Eastern Daylight Time, ... It'll take me a while to track these all down, but I will. stevo ... It'll take me a while to...
I've switched the noun and adverb/case tag endings. Since nouns ended in "s" and were followed by words beginning with "z" (conjunctions and numbers and "zo-"...
The word for "violent" used to be "xetrok". Now it's "sutrok". The opposite has also changed from "xe'atrok" to "su'atrok". The reason for the change is that...
I noticed that "honor" and "reputation, esteem" shared the same word form, so I modified the words for "honor" and related terms: xetloprofondat honor. ...
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