From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 18 15:39:57 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19Slaj-0003dB-00; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:39:45 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:39:45 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] jbovlaste example. Message-ID: <20030618223945.GW31909@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 5692 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Here's an example of a word I just entered into jbovlaste. I'm posting it here not because it's an amazing example of jbovlaste entry skills (I like to think it's pretty good, but it's hardly the only one), but because it's very much *not* like anything in English. In particular, it encompasses two ideas that are essentially contradictory from the English speaking point of view. http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/maisru This came up, by the way, because I'm writing a science fiction story set in the far future, which I hope to make into a serial when the journal is revived. I needed a word for airlock (maisrubasti kumfa, as it turns out), but Dalton (one of my gfs) pointed out that we might as well go for a word for something that can exchange two different types of liquid atmospheres, or liquid with vacuum, or gas with liquid, etc, etc. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui