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Discussion of "corci"
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Comment #3: Re: corci1?
gleki (Fri Mar 18 14:36:13 2016)

krtisfranks wrote:
> gleki wrote:
> > what can go into corci1? is it an event like 'lo moklu cu se polje'?
>
>
> Probably. Lojban presently lacks a way for isolating and treating 'a
> smile', for example, as an abstract noun/entity in and of itself. I
suppose
> that "si'o zi'o cisma" could be considered to represent this idea, but
that
> is much more experimental and probably off-topic.
> For the time being, abstractions (si'o, nu, maybe ka) are probably the
way
> to go.

How to say "I made a gesture".

Comment #5: Re: corci1?
Curtis W Franks (Sat Mar 19 16:13:08 2016)

gleki wrote:
> krtisfranks wrote:
> > gleki wrote:
> > > what can go into corci1? is it an event like 'lo moklu cu se polje'?
> >
> >
> > Probably. Lojban presently lacks a way for isolating and treating 'a
> > smile', for example, as an abstract noun/entity in and of itself. I
> suppose
> > that "si'o zi'o cisma" could be considered to represent this idea, but
> that
> > is much more experimental and probably off-topic.
> > For the time being, abstractions (si'o, nu, maybe ka) are probably the
> way
> > to go.
>
> How to say "I made a gesture".

"mi (pu) cocygau", if you like the proposed cmarafsi.

Comment #6: Re: corci1?
gleki (Sat Mar 19 16:15:11 2016)

krtisfranks wrote:
> > How to say "I made a gesture".
> "mi (pu) cocygau", if you like the proposed cmarafsi.


ok, it'd probably be cocyzu'e.

Comment #8: Re: corci1?
Curtis W Franks (Sat Mar 19 16:32:13 2016)

gleki wrote:
> krtisfranks wrote:
> > > How to say "I made a gesture".
> > "mi (pu) cocygau", if you like the proposed cmarafsi.
>
>
> ok, it'd probably be cocyzu'e.

That works at least as well.

Comment #11: Re: corci1?
gleki (Sun Apr 30 08:16:11 2023)

krtisfranks wrote:
> gleki wrote:
> > krtisfranks wrote:
> > > > How to say "I made a gesture".
> > > "mi (pu) cocygau", if you like the proposed cmarafsi.
> >
> >
> > ok, it'd probably be cocyzu'e.
>
> That works at least as well.

cocyzu'e is to be unwrapped as

zukte lo ka ko'a corci fi lo xadni be ce'u

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