[jbovlaste] Re: Boat rods/poles

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
> To: jbovlaste@lojban.org
> Sent: Tue, June 8, 2010 9:37:32 AM
> Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: Boat rods/poles
> 
> On Tuesday 08 June 2010 04:20:10 Yoav Nir wrote:
> It works great in 
> speech too:
>  .i blofanpinga'a
> meaning: we've just made an 
> uncontrolled jibe, so the boom is swinging
> right at your head. 
> Duck!

I'd just say "pinga'a". If we're jibing, we're on a boat, and at 
> least on the 
boats I've been on, there is no other horizontal bar that one 
> has to alert 
about.

But there is a world beyond the boat in which you will 
probably find many kinds of horizontal rods..  I don't think 
a short lujvo like "pinga'a" should be 'used up' for such an 
uncommon item.

totus