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[lojban] Re: bogjinme gi'i jimbo'u?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:26:44AM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> 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"?
"li'orklirysilna", apparently.
> (Does your question have a legitimate answer?)
I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're trying to ask or imply here.
If it helps, my point was that a lujvo that complicated should be
documented somewhere, preferrably jbovlaste, before use.
-Robin
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