Re: [lojban] slinku'i test

[Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, John Cowan wrote:
>Pierre Abbat wrote:
>
>> Why is the slinku'i test called that, and what's a slinku'i?
>
>"Slinku'i" is a hypothetical fu'ivla that fails the slinku'i test,
>because "pa slinku'i" would be taken as the lujvo "pas+lin+ku'i".
>Neither the fu'ivla nor the lujvo has any other meaning.
>The name goes back to Loglan days.

I ran jbofi'e on it and got robe-chain-caretaker. Chain-robe-caretaker
(linypasku'i) I can understand; it's the curator of a chain-mail museum. So
what might a robe-chain-caretaker be?

phma