Re: [lojban] Re: railgun

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

So, I shouldn't answer your questions?

Getting back to the issue, then, in the long word
for "gun", all of the places come from {cecla}
and {xarci}.  The use of {jinme} for the bullets
is either superfluous or inaccurate (if you think
that all bullets are metal, then it is the one,
if you accept, say, ceramic bullets, the other). 
If you need to distinguish from other projecting
weapons, then guns are the ones that are 1)
tubular and 2) work by explosions, i.e., a sudden
expansion of a fluid, {xukmi} enters very
incidentally into the picture (puffs have
priority).  If we must have literal lujvo (and I
see that CLL has -- against several useful
discussions early on and against the Loglan
tradition -- pretty much forced that approach),
then they should be appropriately sized and
accurate.  {xumjimcelxa'i} was neither. 
{celxa'i} is about right, though perhaps a bit
short; accuate though.  So maybe {tu'urcelxa'i}
(nah! still long and awkward) but then we don't
have good words for the kinds of projectors, in
this case "pop."  Of course, the gunner and the
gunnee places are the least inherent in a gun and
the easiest to replace with prepositions and they
come from {xarci}, so working directly on {cecla}
would allow some further exposition on type
within a reasonable syllable count.

--- Theodore Reed <treed@surreality.us> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:40 -0700, John E
> Clifford wrote:
> > --- Theodore Reed <treed@surreality.us>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:14 -0700, John E
> > > Clifford wrote:
> > > > Failure to address relevant issue (not to
> > > mention
> > > > ad hominem response and red herring).
> > > 
> > > I'm not touching any supposed ad hominem,
> but,
> > > but exactly what is this
> > > red herring?
> > 
> > In the ad hominem, the issue of the amount of
> > Lojban I have written is raised, presumably
> to be
> > dealt with, but it is not germane.
> 
> Now who's failing to address the relevant
> issue.
> -- 
> Theodore Reed <treed@surreality.us>
>