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From: John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [lojban] Re: railgun
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I take the following as strong evidence against
literal lujvo and, thus, in favor of metaphorical
ones (or, at the very least, for leaving out a
lot of the items that hypertophied literalism
insists on putting in).

--- Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 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
> 
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