[lojban] Re: bogjinme gi'i jimbo'u?

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:37:55PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > I asked about bogjinme li'orklirysilna (calcium fluoride) on
> > jbovlaste,
>
> You mean on jbosnu
>
> > to which Robin answered {mi mulno to'e jimpe .i ko pilno la
> > jbovlaste}. So I checked jbovlaste and found that shortly after I
> > defined {bogjinme} as "calcium", arj defined it as "prosthetic
> > bone made of metal".
>
> That was part of my confusion, yes.
>
> As a seperate issue, how would I have known that li'orklirysilna is
> flouride?


What word could you have deciphered as "flouride"? (Does your question
have a legitimate answer?)



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