From phma@webjockey.net Sun May 09 04:02:05 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 54757 invoked from network); 9 May 2004 11:02:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 May 2004 11:02:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 May 2004 11:02:04 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 733A84B9B; Sun, 9 May 2004 11:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 07:01:56 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200405071817.28185.phma@webjockey.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200405090701.56585.phma@webjockey.net> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 208.150.110.21 From: Pierre Abbat Subject: Re: [lojban] nuts X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22186 On Sunday 09 May 2004 02:30, Jim Carter wrote: > fetsi klupe (fetyklupe?) = female screw. This male/female metaphor is > standard, at least in electrical engineering. fetlu'e. Sounds good. I don't understand the official definition: x1 is a screw [fastener] for purpose x2, threads [pitch, material] x3, frame [size, material] x4 I'd expect one place for the pitch, one for the diameter, and one for the material. What's the "frame"? phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa