From - Mon Apr 22 10:21:11 1996 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id WAA19901 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 22:19:55 -0400 Message-Id: <199604200219.WAA19901@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id C3123925 ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:19:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 20:10:34 -0700 Reply-To: Seth Golub Sender: Lojban list From: Seth Golub Subject: Re: triangle? To: Lojban List In-Reply-To: <9604180202.AA27664@cs.wustl.edu> X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 890 I know it's poor etiquette to answer my own questions, but I figure it's better than letting someone else bother. I found Nick's handy lujvo list. Seth> How would one say "triangle"? "cibjgatai" Seth> Actually, I need a word for "triangular tile". How about "cibjgatapla"? It really has more than three angles, but we all get the idea, right? Seth> What I'm actually trying to describe is a geodesic dome. I came Seth> up with "xabdabolbag" for dome. Unsuprisingly complicated for a first attempt. :) "boldi'u" is in the list, but I like "boldru" better when reffering to just a domed ceiling. For my geodesic dome though, "boldi'u" is probably best. Thus, I now have "le gunma bei cmaboldi'u cikortapla be'o" for "a small geodesic dome". It's a bit wordy, but it's describing quite a bit and doesn't have the advantage of a precoined term.