[jbovlaste] Re: spring

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

2009/9/23 Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:
> On Wednesday 23 September 2009 10:51:15 tijlan wrote:
>> Yes, i had thought about these two. But i realized "punsarlu" could
>> also mean "tornado" (which is an elastic spiral thing), and "punkro"
>> "paperclip" (which is an elastic crooked thing).
>
> Tornado?? I thought that was konbi'e.

Using "brife" is obviously more appropriate for "tornado". What i want
to say though is that "punsarlu" cannot exclude "tornado", which is a
spiral thing capable of stretching and shrinking.


> As to a paperclip, it is a sort of
> spring too. There are coil springs and leaf springs, so why not
> bent-back-to-hold-things springs?

I see. But considering the definition "an elastic object used to store
mechanical energy", it may be better to use "torni", the x2 of which
can be the stored energy, instead of "korcu", which lacks such a
terbri.


mu'o mi'e tijlan