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[lojban-beginners] Re: la xislu xracku



On 2/13/08, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008 12:42 PM,  <mungojelly@ixkey.info> wrote:
> > Made of materials
> > / having properties?  What kind of properties?  Would it be correct to
> > say "lo xislu be lo trene bei lo jinme"?  How about "lo xislu be lo
> > trene bei lo cukla"?  What properties are we talking, here? :)
> >
>  Sure, lo jinme (although I would have used loi jinme) would be fine,
> as would lo ka cukla (it's not made of a circle, but circular, so I
> think ka would be appropirate here)

So either {lo jinme} or {lo ka jinme} would seem to work:
"made of metal"/"having the property of being metallic".

"made of materials / having properties" is an odd conceptual conflation
for a place structure.

mu'o mi'e xorxes