From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 21 22:07:58 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:07:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AjY0P-00020y-Fx for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:07:53 -0800 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:07:53 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: srebandu Message-ID: <20040122060753.GP17764@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200401212330.15845.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401212330.15845.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6999 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:30:15PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I made up {srebandu} for "allergy" and put it in jbovlaste, and > also added the gloss "friendly fire". The word refers to any > action of erroneously defending against something which is not a > threat. Is "friendly fire" the correct term for this? No. "Friendly fire" is when you accidentally get shot by someone whe is supposed to be on your own side. Generally this is *not* used in cases of mistaken identity (i.e. where you meant to shoot the person because you thought they were the enemy), but in cases where you missed the enemy and hit a friend, or where an area of effect weapon took out some friendly troops as well. It should be noted that I am not a military strategist, but I play one on PC. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui