From lojban-out@lojban.org Tue Sep 21 08:57:58 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 88870 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2004 15:57:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m22.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 21 Sep 2004 15:57:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Sep 2004 15:57:57 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C9myb-00009k-PF for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:54:46 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C9mxr-00008u-5K; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:53:59 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:53:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.189.121.177] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C9mxd-00008M-Lz for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:53:46 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5779E53DB; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:53:13 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200409202217.22149.phma@phma.hn.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409211153.13401.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8637 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Pierre Abbat From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@phma.hn.org Subject: [lojban] Re: guess the tanru X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23048 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, or "riflip" for short. Pieces are formed by copying DNA in an environment which is missing one of the four terzbasu. This produces copies of long stretches of intergene DNA that are missing that base, such as CATCATCATCAT. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa