Re: [lojban] Re: railgun

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

Relevance?  The issue is about ugly, excessively
long (and inaccurate for all that) words, not
about what places you give them and then use.

--- Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> I've used every single place of xumjimcelxa'i
> in my stories, except
> the x5.  More than once.  The x4 is, in fact,
> used about as often as
> the x1.
> 
> -Robin
> 
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:41:52PM -0700, John
> E Clifford wrote:
> > I take the following as strong evidence
> against
> > literal lujvo and, thus, in favor of
> metaphorical
> > ones (or, at the very least, for leaving out
> a
> > lot of the items that hypertophied literalism
> > insists on putting in).
> > 
> > --- Robin Lee Powell
> > <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:59:21PM +0400,
> > > Aleksej R. Serdyukov
> > > wrote:
> > > > Just wondering (nowhere to write, nothing
> > > here to call). Is there
> > > > a word for railgun yet? Not mentioning
> the
> > > ones in games, but the
> > > > real thing.
> > > 
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun
> > > 
> > > It would appear that there isn't much of
> the
> > > real thing.
> > > 
> > > Anyways, I used "xumjimcelxa'i" for "gun"
> as in
> > > "chemical projectile
> > > weapon" in my LNC story.
> > > 
> > > Using a similar construct for railgun gives
> > > makyjimcelxa'i, with a
> > > place structure something like:
> > > 
> > > $x_1 = c_1$ is a railgun/magnetically
> launched
> > > metal slug throwing
> > > weapon for use against x2 by x3; weapon
> fires
> > > metallic object(s) j1
> > > using magnetic ojbect(s) m1
> > > 
> > > j2 and m2 are dropped due to being mostly
> > > useless.
> > > 
> > > -Robin
> > > 
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> Their
> > > Grate!"
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> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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