From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jan 22 22:14:14 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F0uxy-0002Ox-Hd for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:14:14 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F0uxy-0002Oq-7q for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:14:14 -0800 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:14:14 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: engineering terms Message-ID: <20060123061414.GP27330@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <43D31D10.6020708@pcisys.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43D31D10.6020708@pcisys.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 2981 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:50:08PM -0700, Stephen Simmons wrote: > I find one of the easier ways to learn lojban is to practice > writing in it; since I am an engineer by trade, naturally, I > sometimes try and write about engineering terms. Many of them > make sense as fu'ivla; however some are so general that it would > make some sense to develop a sensible tanru or possibly lujvo for > expressing them. I don't think I have a lot to add, as I know very little about any form of engineering, but I suggest that whatever you come up with, I suggest you put it on http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Science%20terminology or a similar page. > 1. electrical circuit - a set of devices connected together in > such a way that electricity can flow through one or more loops > either conditionally or simultaneously > > dikca - electric > clupa - loop > > Propose: dikca clupa > dicyclupa > > Since clupa is non-specific about number, and so is circuit, in > the general sense, this seems like a good match. Seems good to me. > 2. electrical amplifier - an electrical circuit that copies and > usually modifies the input to the output > > fukpi je galfi dicyclupa Sure. Might want to look at "stika". > 3. logical circuit > > logji dicyclupa *nod* -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/