[lojban] Re: mi na zasti

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

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:28:55PM +0200, jexOm. wrote:
> jexom> .i lenu ri cu galfi mi tilju .ije fanta lenu mi stali le sefta
> robin> It changes my weight.  And prevents me from staying on the 
> surface?
> 
> Yes.

Cool.  :-)

> robin> (did you mean loldi?)
> 
> The matephor is more like a water surface (the sea). But maybe I
> have malfraso the definition of {sefta}. I have to think more
> about it.

I don't think so, actually.  However, you might want to use jinru
instead somehow.

> jexom> .i lo se bumru cu se runta le te marji
> robin> The fog-water?? (why "se"?) dissolves the shape
> 
> Well, I don't know how to interpret the definition of {bumru}: in
> 
> "x1 is foggy/misty/covered by a fog/mist/vapor of liquid x2",
> 
> is x2 only the "liquid" or the "fog of liquid"? I think it is the
> second one, and that x1 the space filled by the fog or the thing
> covered by the fog. What do you think?

x2 is the liquid, x1 is the area filled by fog or thing covered by
it.  For the fog itself, you want gapci.

-Robin

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