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Subject: [lojban] Re: railgun
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I've used every single place of xumjimcelxa'i in my stories, except
the x5.  More than once.  The x4 is, in fact, used about as often as
the x1.

-Robin

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:41:52PM -0700, John E Clifford wrote:
> I take the following as strong evidence against
> literal lujvo and, thus, in favor of metaphorical
> ones (or, at the very least, for leaving out a
> lot of the items that hypertophied literalism
> insists on putting in).
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:59:21PM +0400,
> > Aleksej R. Serdyukov
> > wrote:
> > > Just wondering (nowhere to write, nothing
> > here to call). Is there
> > > a word for railgun yet? Not mentioning the
> > ones in games, but the
> > > real thing.
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun
> > 
> > It would appear that there isn't much of the
> > real thing.
> > 
> > Anyways, I used "xumjimcelxa'i" for "gun" as in
> > "chemical projectile
> > weapon" in my LNC story.
> > 
> > Using a similar construct for railgun gives
> > makyjimcelxa'i, with a
> > place structure something like:
> > 
> > $x_1 = c_1$ is a railgun/magnetically launched
> > metal slug throwing
> > weapon for use against x2 by x3; weapon fires
> > metallic object(s) j1
> > using magnetic ojbect(s) m1
> > 
> > j2 and m2 are dropped due to being mostly
> > useless.
> > 
> > -Robin
> > 
> > -- 
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> > Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their
> > Grate!"
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> > http://singinst.org/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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