[jbovlaste] Re: Alice in Wonderland 04

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

  He replied... he just accidentally put it in the quoted area... his
reply started with "I agree..." and ended with "totus"
  But as to the issue at hand, I like the current laktytergu'i.  I'm
not sure why you think it doesn't make sense.

            --gejyspa



On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Weird, I didn't see a reply.
> This is what I saw:
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:44 AM, A. PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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"?
>>
>> I agree.  But nobody has yet commented on {laktytergu'i} which is already
>> in jbovlaste.
>> That is shown as 'g3=l1 is a candle/wax light with wax source l2'. which
>> seems to be wrong as
>> the x3 of gusni is the source of the light i.e. the burning candle.  So
>> {laktergu'i} should be the candle
>> and lakygu'i the candle light.  Simlarly {ctilytergu'i} would be an oil
>> lamp.
>>
>> totus
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> mu'o mi'e .aionys.
>>>
>>> .i.a'o.e'e ko klama le bende pe denpa bu
>>>
>>
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