From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon May 23 12:14:05 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 23 May 2005 12:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DaIN9-000831-DA for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:13:55 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DaIN9-00082u-3F for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:13:55 -0700 Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 12:13:55 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: railgun Message-ID: <20050523191355.GQ2534@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <4290E499.5040504@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4290E499.5040504@yandex.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 10005 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 22, 2005 at 11:59:21PM +0400, Aleksej R. Serdyukov wrote: > Just wondering (nowhere to write, nothing here to call). Is there > a word for railgun yet? Not mentioning the ones in games, but the > real thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun It would appear that there isn't much of the real thing. Anyways, I used "xumjimcelxa'i" for "gun" as in "chemical projectile weapon" in my LNC story. Using a similar construct for railgun gives makyjimcelxa'i, with a place structure something like: $x_1 = c_1$ is a railgun/magnetically launched metal slug throwing weapon for use against x2 by x3; weapon fires metallic object(s) j1 using magnetic ojbect(s) m1 j2 and m2 are dropped due to being mostly useless. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/