[jbovlaste] Re: spring

[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. 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?

There's no rule that says that a Lojban word has to have the same semantic 
range as an English word. Lojban and English don't even divide the major 
parts of speech the same way.

Pierre