[lojban] Re: Help with "beak", please.

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

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:12:32AM +0100, Arnt Richard Johansen
wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Jim Carter wrote:
> 
> > "jgalu moklu" is tempting, but I think I'd prefer a proper
> > translation of "snout" as in "projecting mouth".  But I wasn't
> > able to get a good gismu for "projecting".
> 
> There's something to be said for the Logflash algorithm, which
> forces you to memorize all gismu, even the really obscure ones. So
> I got the distinct feeling that I had seen some gismu that had a
> meaning similar to this before.
> 
> One quick jbovlaste search later, and I found {punli} 'convexity'.
> Will that do?

Seems that it will, although I've gone in a different direction for
this word.

In fact, I also had punli memorized, but I never noticed that it was
to'e kevna.  It has now had its keyword changed to "convexity" (and,
for that matter, kevna is now "concavity") in my SuperMemo list.

-Robin

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