From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Feb 06 00:50:16 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18ghjb-0003fx-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:50:15 -0800 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 00:50:15 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: terkunra Message-ID: <20030206085015.GO3331@digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 66 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:30:34AM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:06:03AM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote: > > > Can {terkunra} be used for locations producing things other > > > than metal ore? > > > > Seems that way. > [snip] > > > Is an oil well a {ctile terkunra} as well as a {selctile}? > > > > > > Are diamonds (jarjme? rairjarjme?) found in {terkunra} or only in > > > {terjemna}? > > > > Same questions; yes. > [snip] > > > What are the restrictions on the {kunra} ("mineral/ore of type/metal > > > x2") that come from a {terkunra}? > > > > You've just listed them. 8) > > .uanai > > By "them" (the restrictions that I supposedly listed) do you mean the > bit about "mineral/ore"? Because diamonds (AFAIK) aren't minerals, How not, exactly? http://webmineral.com/data/Diamond.shtml http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/elements/diamond/diamond.htm > nor are they ore, yet you said they could legitimately come from a > {terkunra}. And I'm not sure what all qualifies as minerals -- I > suppose oil would, but what are the limits? I suppose you have to ask a geologist, but as I understand it, pretty much everything that's natural found in the ground and is hard. 8) > (The reason I asked, as you might have found out by now, was that I > wanted to talk about a {cirla terkunra} and wasn't sure whether that > was an appropriate word to use.) Heh. I haven't read it yet, but it's in my inbox to be read. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi