wrote: > >> On Tuesday 13 July 2010 21:22:01 Kevin Reid wrote: >> > That its fuel is wax, or that its fuel is solid and also forms its >> > mechanical structure? >> > >> > Candles can be made of other materials than wax; for example, tallow >> > and spermaceti, per dict.org. And one could perhaps burn wax in ways >> > which would not qualify for being a candle. >> >> There is a device consisting of a container of a flammable liquid (which >> could >> be wax; there are liquid waxes), with a thing floating on the liquid and a >> wick stuck through the thing. Is it a candle? >> > > la'edi'u .e la'ede'u mintu zo lakyga'a lonu mi jimpe > >> >> Pierre >> >> -- >> I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales. >> >> >> >> > > > -- > mu'o mi'e .aionys. > > .i.a'o.e'e ko klama le bende pe denpa bu > > --0016e64757dcd3e0a4048b59183e Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable mi se cfipu lo nu do jimpe lo du'u lo kabri be lo litki cu srana lo gra= na

Sorry, I still consider my lojban to be pretty rough.= =A0Basically, what on earth would make me want to refer to a bowl of liqui= d wax with a wick floating on a piece of=A0buoyant=A0material a "wax r= od"? =A0

How about:=A0

jelylakse for generic "can= dle"

lakyga'a for the specific kind of jelylakse that is= a candle-stick (the hard wax stick type)

flujelylakse for the fl= oating candle type

...

<rafsi for whatever mechanism the wick uses to burn t= he fuel>jelylakse for <mechanism the wick uses to burn the fuel> t= ype of jelylakse.

On Wed, Jul 14, = 2010 at 3:18 AM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu&= gt; wrote:

On Tuesday 13 July 2010 21:22:01 Kevin Reid wrote:
> That its fuel is wax, or that its fuel is solid and also forms its
> mechanical structure?
>
> Candles can be made of other materials than wax; for example, tallow > and spermaceti, per dict= .org. And one could perhaps burn wax in ways
> which would not qualify for being a candle.

There is a device consisting of a container of a flammable liquid (wh= ich could
be wax; there are liquid waxes), with a thing floating on the liquid and a<= br> wick stuck through the thing. Is it a candle?
la'edi'u .e la'ede'u mintu zo lakyga'a lonu mi jimpe<= br>

Pierre

--
I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wal= es.

--
mu'o mi'e .aionys.

.i.a'o.e'e ko= klama le bende pe denpa bu

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