Received: from access2.digex.net by nfs1.digex.net with SMTP id AA20680 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 24 Oct 1994 10:58:43 -0400 Received: by access2.digex.net id AA25224 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for lojbab); Mon, 24 Oct 1994 10:58:37 -0400 From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199410241458.AA25224@access2.digex.net> Subject: Re: Need a gismu or lujvo... To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 10:58:36 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net (Logical Language Group) In-Reply-To: <199410220744.AA14153@nfs2.digex.net> from "Chris Bogart" at Oct 21, 94 08:29:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 593 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Mon Oct 24 10:58:48 1994 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab la kris. bogart. cusku di'e > I need a gismu that means something "functions". How would you say "This > perpetual motion machine doesn't really work"? "spofu" comes to mind, but a > PMM isn't really broken as such -- it's something that couldn't have worked > in the first place. > > "le cinmymuvmi'i cu na gasnu le ri se minji" is the best I can think of... I think that "minji" itself works fine: le cinmymuvmi'i cu na'e minji This is no paradox, because of the intentionality of "le". -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.