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

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> 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.


It seemed that you had wished Pierre used a lujvo which was decomposable
into "flouride".


> If it helps, my point was that a lujvo that complicated should be
> documented somewhere, preferrably jbovlaste, before use.
>
> -Robin
>
>

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