From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 21 10:57:24 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C9otA-0003Qb-P6 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:57:16 -0700 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:57:16 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: guess the tanru Message-ID: <20040921175716.GE1650@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200409202217.22149.phma@phma.hn.org> <200409211153.13401.phma@phma.hn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200409211153.13401.phma@phma.hn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8640 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 Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:53:13AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Tuesday 21 September 2004 11:31, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > > Here's a tanru for a phrase I've seen many times. Can you > > > guess what it means? {terzbacau spisa nilcla kamsortai} > > > > "Materialless piece length polymorphism". > > > > Have no idea what it *means*, though. > > Restriction fragment length polymorphism, Oh, yeah, I feel *SO* bad that I didn't figure that out... What the hell was the point of that exercise, exactly? To test our obscure biology knowledge? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"