From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun May 09 11:18:29 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 09 May 2004 11:18:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BMssZ-0003Gu-EX for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 11:18:23 -0700 Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 11:18:23 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: nuts Message-ID: <20040509181823.GM5570@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200405071817.28185.phma@webjockey.net> <200405090701.56585.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405090701.56585.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7726 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 On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 07:01:56AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I don't understand the official definition: x1 is a screw [fastener] > for purpose x2, threads [pitch, material] x3, frame [size, material] > x4 > > I'd expect one place for the pitch, one for the diameter, and one for > the material. What's the "frame"? Screws fasten two things together, generally a solid, immobile thing to a light, mobile thing. The frame would presumably be the immobile thing. I could be full of it, of course. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi