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Discussion of "mebri"
Comment #1:
Brow or Forehead
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Curtis W Franks (Thu Aug 25 20:42:27 2016)
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Is this word for the brow (ridge, regardless of hair) or for the forehead (flat region above the brow)? These are rather distinct things to me. I would accept that it is the word for the combined region of these two as a whole, but the descriptor of "projecting flat/smooth head/body-part" confuses me. The descriptor seems to narrow the meaning, but I still cannot really tell to which since "projecting" would probably reference the brow ridge if it had to be one of the two but "flat/smooth" would reference the forehead; I suppose that one could consider the forehead to project too, so my interpretation is that the word should only be for the forehead.
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Comment #2:
Re: Brow or Forehead
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gleki (Fri Aug 26 10:07:27 2016)
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krtisfranks wrote: > Is this word for the brow (ridge, regardless of hair) or for the forehead
> (flat region above the brow)? These are rather distinct things to me. I > would accept that it is the word for the combined region of these two as a > whole, but the descriptor of "projecting flat/smooth head/body-part" > confuses me. The descriptor seems to narrow the meaning, but I still cannot > really tell to which since "projecting" would probably reference the brow
> ridge if it had to be one of the two but "flat/smooth" would reference the > forehead; I suppose that one could consider the forehead to project too, so > my interpretation is that the word should only be for the forehead.
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/lojban/VkurgL2ThR4/discussion
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