From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Thu Oct 10 18:41:14 1991 Return-Path: Date: Thu Oct 10 18:41:14 1991 Message-Id: <9110102127.AA07488@relay1.UU.NET> Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Coasting/orbiting X-To: lojban To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: <9110092055.AA13520@relay1.UU.NET>; from "Chris Handley" at Oct 10, 91 8:55 am Status: RO la kris. xandlis. cusku di'e > The Earth orbiting the sun, indeed any planetary body orbiting its > primary, hardly has a 'choice' of route, nor even really a means. "klama" and "litru" say nothing about self-propulsion. If I throw you off a cliff, you "litru" along the cliff face, and you "klama" to the bottom from the top, just as if you were moving down on a rope. So "litru" is perfectly suitable for the movement of a planet or other ballistic body in a closed orbit, and a baseball may be said to "klama" from the pitcher to the catcher even though its motion is just as ballistic (though not closed). -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban