From lojban-out@lojban.org Mon May 23 12:15:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 97733 invoked from network); 23 May 2005 19:15:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m27.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 May 2005 19:15:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 May 2005 19:15:22 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DaINy-00083t-Ul for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:14:47 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DaINO-00083P-Cs; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:14:13 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 23 May 2005 12:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DaIN9-000831-DA for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:13:55 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DaIN9-00082u-3F for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:13:55 -0700 Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 12:13:55 -0700 Message-ID: <20050523191355.GQ2534@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <4290E499.5040504@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4290E499.5040504@yandex.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-archive-position: 10005 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -5.3 (-----) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: railgun X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 24376 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 -- 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/