[jbovlaste] Re: Alice in Wonderland 04

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

mi se cfipu lo nu do jimpe lo du'u lo kabri be lo litki cu srana lo grana

Sorry, I still consider my lojban to be pretty rough.  Basically, what on earth would make me want to refer to a bowl of liquid wax with a wick floating on a piece of buoyant material a "wax rod"?  

How about: 

jelylakse for generic "candle"

lakyga'a for the specific kind of jelylakse that is a candle-stick (the hard wax stick type)

flujelylakse for the floating candle type

...

<rafsi for whatever mechanism the wick uses to burn the fuel>jelylakse for <mechanism the wick uses to burn the fuel> type of jelylakse.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Tuesday 13 July 2010 21:22:01 Kevin Reid wrote:
> That its fuel is wax, or that its fuel is solid and also forms its
> mechanical structure?
>
> Candles can be made of other materials than wax; for example, tallow
> and spermaceti, per dict.org. And one could perhaps burn wax in ways
> which would not qualify for being a candle.

There is a device consisting of a container of a flammable liquid (which could
be wax; there are liquid waxes), with a thing floating on the liquid and a
wick stuck through the thing. Is it a candle?

la'edi'u .e la'ede'u mintu zo lakyga'a lonu mi jimpe

Pierre

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