[lojban] jbovlaste example.

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Here's an example of a word I just entered into jbovlaste.

I'm posting it here not because it's an amazing example of jbovlaste
entry skills (I like to think it's pretty good, but it's hardly the
only one), but because it's very much *not* like anything in
English.

In particular, it encompasses two ideas that are essentially
contradictory from the English speaking point of view.

http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/maisru

This came up, by the way, because I'm writing a science fiction
story set in the far future, which I hope to make into a serial when
the journal is revived.  I needed a word for airlock (maisrubasti
kumfa, as it turns out), but Dalton (one of my gfs) pointed out that
we might as well go for a word for something that can exchange two
different types of liquid atmospheres, or liquid with vacuum, or gas
with liquid, etc, etc.

-Robin

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