From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Wed Sep 08 02:23:48 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 08 Sep 2004 02:23:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [69.55.227.156] (helo=transfinite.hypercomplex.net ident=root) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1C4wsZ-0002lc-U8 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:28:32 -0700 Received: from blackcat.ixazon.lan (dsl1.webkorner.com [216.189.121.177] (may be forged)) by transfinite.hypercomplex.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.4.swsoft) with ESMTP id i84JXhmN012475 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:33:44 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BE7AC4B08; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:32:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] term for earth's crust and tectonic plate Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 15:32:37 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409041532.38023.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8592 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list The crust could be considered the earth's skin ({skapi} or {pilka}) or shell ({calku}). A tectonic plate is a {plita} or {tapla} of the crust. The term {kapyplita} is preoccupied by a fish scale, which is a plate attached to a skin, so that's not the best term. I think it should be {caktapla}; any other opinions? phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa