=A0 I had actually asked that question on the list back on= 2/22/08:

pre= ti
.i ma tertu'u to te=A0tubnu=A0toi
.i ri du da poi ca'a nenri lo=A0tubnu=A0gi'i pu se vimcu fi lo=A0tubnu
=A0
=A0Both xorxes and selckiku agreed at the time the asnwe= r was "gi'u"
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Jonathan Jo= nes <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

Agreed.

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at = 9:44 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

That's what would be *useful*, but in th= at case you'd just say
"filled with x3", or perhaps "for being filled with x3"= .

So many wording problems in the gismu list. =A0-_-

-Robin

On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 07:54:29PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Ah, yes. I must have glossed over the x2 bit. I thought it was somethi= ng
> else. In that case, I would suppose that the x3 is what is currently > occupying the hollow region of the tube, such as water in plumbing, si= milar
> to the x2 of botpi. Further, I would guess that the reason for the
> awkwardness of its phrasing is due to the uncommonness of the concept<= br> > attempting to be expressed in English.
>
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote= :
>
> > On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think it's missing a comma: "... hollow, of mater= ial x3".
> >
> > I disagree, since that makes x2=3Dx3.
> >
> > I suspect it's intended to be a place that is never filled bu= t allows
> > you to describe what has been bored out as lo te tubnu, but this<= br> > > doesn't actually seem like an especially useful thing to have= done so
> > perhaps it is something subtler that I'm not seeing.
> >
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