Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sun, 15 Aug 1993 22:47:15 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sun, 15 Aug 1993 22:47:11 -0400 Message-Id: <199308160247.AA02089@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7327; Sun, 15 Aug 93 22:45:57 EDT Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@YALEVM) by YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 3836; Sun, 15 Aug 1993 22:45:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 22:45:38 EDT Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: TEXT: xislu mu'ucutci (roller skating) X-To: rpb@PANIX.COM X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: O X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Sun Aug 15 18:45:38 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET A common word for 'skate' that doesn't distinguish ice vs. roller How about cutcymarce or cutcyxemklama But I suspect that once you get specific and put the wheels or the slide on, that the 'vehicle' nature of the thing will get Zipf'd off as being obvious. It makes good classifying, but people have tended to not like long words. lojbab