On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Pierre = Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:

On Thursday, March 21, 2013 19:07:14 Jacob Errington wrote:
> {mluni} isn't a fu'ivla, it's a gismu of the form CCVCV. (= fu'ivla can't be
> five letters long, as that's a criterion for being a gismu.)

A fu'ivla can be five letters long, mu'u zo .aizdo .e zo gleua.

> I can, however, see one major issue with the numeric system: what if w= e
> discover a new planet between two existing ones? What do we call it? I= f
> it's discovered between planet 3 and 4, do we call it planet 3.5 ?= Do we
> shift all the other planets back and call this new planet planet 4 ? A= s far
> as I can tell, this is the only real shortcoming of this system.

I prefer names, and would like to see what they turn out to be if we combin= e
the Greek/Latin names with the Sanskrit or Chinese ones. Even the Greek nam= es
can be slightly foreign: I once read a reference to =F4=EF=ED =F0=EB=E1=ED= =E7=F4=E7 =D0=EF=F3=E5=E9=E4=F9=ED=E1, and
it took me a second or two to figure out they meant Neptune. Asteroids and<= br> minor planets are designated by both names and numbers, but the number
indicates the order of discovery (except for Pluto).

> > A carbon nanotube could be a {navtabytu'u} and a space elevat= or a {kensa
> > galgau}.
>
> Elevators are machines rather than agents, and I'd suggest {galzen= rikmi'i}
> "height increase physical-cause machine". Perfectly jvajvo. = As for carbon
> nanotube, I don't think that a lujvo is ideal for this concept. (D= ue to it
> being extremely naljvajvo, as in practically 0% jvajvo.) Why not just = use a
> tanru? {.i tabno ke nanvi tubnu}.

"navytabytu'u" would mean a nanocarbon tube. I'd say &quo= t;tabno navytu'u" or
"tabynavytu'u", and I don't see anything naljvajvo about = it (nanotubes can
contain things, such as smaller nanotubes).

What's a space elevator? I suggest "lafmi'i" for elevator= ; it's shorter.

Does that include c= ranes, Hoyer lifts, jacks, too?

stevo=A0

Pierre
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