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Discussion of "dikca"
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Comment #1:
Signum
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Curtis W Franks (Sun Mar 6 08:50:39 2016)
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It should be pointed out which convention is used for what "positive electric charge" means. The user can say "this is positive" but the definition really should specify an automatic interpretation of that utterance (which may be overridden by an explicit statement of convention by the user). I propose that "positive" charge is any charge which has a signum equal to the signum of the charge of an electron.
This matches other definitions which I have supplied.
This will necessitate the careful translation of any material on electricity or related things. In particular, conventional current will match typical electric current, voltages (potentials; the additional good news is that electron orbits in classical models resemble gravitational wells, which makes more intuitive sense) will be negative to English convention, and the Lojbanic magnetic-south will be what English speakers describe as "magnetic-north" (the additional good news is that geological North on Earth is current Lojbanic magnetic-north). This all makes sense.
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Comment #2:
Re: Signum
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Curtis W Franks (Sat Jun 26 10:04:43 2021)
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krtisfranks wrote: > It should be pointed out which convention is used for what "positive > electric charge" means. The user can say "this is positive" but the > definition really should specify an automatic interpretation of that > utterance (which may be overridden by an explicit statement of convention > by the user). I propose that "positive" charge is any charge which has a > signum equal to the signum of the charge of an electron. > > This matches other definitions which I have supplied. > > This will necessitate the careful translation of any material on > electricity or related things. In particular, conventional current will > match typical electric current, voltages (potentials; the additional good > news is that electron orbits in classical models resemble gravitational > wells, which makes more intuitive sense) will be negative to English > convention, and the Lojbanic magnetic-south will be what English speakers > describe as "magnetic-north" (the additional good news is that geological > North on Earth is current Lojbanic magnetic-north). This all makes sense.
Correction/clarification: The aforementioned lujvo are defined already, but they lack specificity enough to avoid ambiguity wrt charge signum conventions. We can clarify them at no cost. I would, even so, find a rafsi other than "-mar-" though.
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