From adam@pubcrawler.org Wed May 05 14:15:08 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 05 May 2004 14:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal.seas.wustl.edu ([128.252.21.102]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.31) id 1BLTjK-0003m4-87 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 14:15:02 -0700 Received: from clarion.cec.wustl.edu (clarion.cec.wustl.edu [128.252.21.3]) by postal.seas.wustl.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i45LBu309381; Wed, 5 May 2004 16:11:56 -0500 Received: from localhost (adam@localhost) by clarion.cec.wustl.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i45LEqYH024945; Wed, 5 May 2004 16:14:52 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: clarion.cec.wustl.edu: adam owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 16:14:52 -0500 (CDT) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-list@lojban.org cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: [lojban] Re: technical/scientific lujvo (Pierre) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Status: No, -6.7 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Report: -6.7/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results -6.70 points, 5 required; * -0.0 -- Has a valid-looking References header * 0.0 -- Message-Id indicates a non-spam MUA (Pine) * -0.4 -- Has a X-Authentication-Warning header * -0.4 -- Has a In-Reply-To header * -0.5 -- BODY: Contains what looks like an email attribution * 0.1 -- BODY: Odd Letter Triples with UJ * -5.4 -- BODY: Bayesian classifier says spam probability is 1 to 10% [score: 0.0162] * -0.4 -- BODY: Contains what looks like a quoted email text * 0.3 -- URI: URI found with no Dots (.) * 0.0 -- Reply with quoted text ---- End of SpamAssassin results X-archive-position: 7666 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: adam@pubcrawler.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, 5 May 2004, la_okus wrote: > --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Pierre Abbat > wrote: > > > flecu (x1 is a flow at x2 flowing to x3 from x4) > > > + > > > matra (x1 is a motor, driving/powering x2) > > > = > > > flematra (m1=f1 is a hydroelectric station powering m2) > > > > jaurflematra to be specific. ro brife cu flecu > > The official definition of flecu includes current/flow/river. I > suppose it could mean any liquid (it only pertains to > liquids....right??), but I don't think we need to specify water. I * > could* use rirxe, but the lujvo would be uglier. I think flecu refers to any fluid. Technically, fluids include both liquids and gasses, anything that flows. Actually, flematra sounds to me like a turbine, where a gas turbine and a wind turbine and a water wheel are more or less the same thing, in principle. -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ My major? It's Underwater Fire Protection.