From graywyvern@hotmail.com Mon Nov 27 13:17:18 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: graywyvern@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 27 Nov 2000 21:17:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 81493 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2000 21:17:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Nov 2000 21:17:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.236.168) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Nov 2000 21:17:17 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:17:17 -0800 Received: from 209.176.48.50 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:17:17 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.176.48.50] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] backemselrerkru Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:17:17 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Nov 2000 21:17:17.0605 (UTC) FILETIME=[6BBAFD50:01C058B7] From: "michael helsem" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4867 >From: Arnt Richard Johansen li'o >What does the "bancu" in "backemselrerkru" mean? kind of looks like someone was trying to make a word for "hyperbola" from what they thought was a word for "parabola". i would rather use TE JUNTA plus KRUVI which makes the gravity connection explicit. but TERJUNTYKRUBACRU is sure a mouthful. what goes in a hyperbola besides comets, anyway? better to borrow a word for that, & make its hyperboloid orbit one of the places... _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com