From lojban-out@lojban.org Mon Jan 10 09:43:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 26498 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2005 17:43:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m24.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Jan 2005 17:43:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2005 17:43:29 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Co3Wd-0004Gf-ED for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:40:19 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Co3W8-0004Fw-Al; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:39:48 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:39:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Co3Vk-0004FD-Sp for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:39:24 -0800 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:39:24 -0800 Message-ID: <20050110173924.GF4597@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050109105912.GG4597@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-archive-position: 9216 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 X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Help with "beak", please. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23607 On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:12:32AM +0100, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Jim Carter wrote: > > > "jgalu moklu" is tempting, but I think I'd prefer a proper > > translation of "snout" as in "projecting mouth". But I wasn't > > able to get a good gismu for "projecting". > > There's something to be said for the Logflash algorithm, which > forces you to memorize all gismu, even the really obscure ones. So > I got the distinct feeling that I had seen some gismu that had a > meaning similar to this before. > > One quick jbovlaste search later, and I found {punli} 'convexity'. > Will that do? Seems that it will, although I've gone in a different direction for this word. In fact, I also had punli memorized, but I never noticed that it was to'e kevna. It has now had its keyword changed to "convexity" (and, for that matter, kevna is now "concavity") in my SuperMemo list. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/