From arj@nvg.org Mon Jan 10 02:13:08 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:13:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67] ident=[jYZq3pVjt2Hy9Ydz7/T0kT92nEJOIbqK]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CnwXU-0006XK-Vo for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:12:45 -0800 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.68]:19140 "EHLO hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no" ident: "[kNbRDZi2exs/3CiZr5sRWU0/+uQDGjF5]" whoson: "-unregistered-") by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:12:32 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:12:32 +0100 (CET) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-list@lojban.org cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: [lojban] Re: Help with "beak", please. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050109105912.GG4597@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 9214 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Jim Carter wrote: > "jgalu moklu" is tempting, but I think I'd prefer a proper translation of > "snout" as in "projecting mouth". But I wasn't able to get a good gismu > for "projecting". There's something to be said for the Logflash algorithm, which forces you to memorize all gismu, even the really obscure ones. So I got the distinct feeling that I had seen some gismu that had a meaning similar to this before. One quick jbovlaste search later, and I found {punli} 'convexity'. Will that do? -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Att handla en kvarting på Systemet kan vara oerhört sofistikerad på ett digitalt plan. -- Z mag@zine