hyperbola

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In a message dated 11/28/2000 06:45:09 Eastern Standard Time, 
lojban@egroups.com writes:

> kind of looks like someone was trying to make a word
>  for "hyperbola" from what they thought was a word for
>  "parabola". i would rather use TE JUNTA plus KRUVI which
>  makes the gravity connection explicit. but TERJUNTYKRUBACRU
>  is sure a mouthful. what goes in a hyperbola besides comets,
>  anyway? better to borrow a word for that, & make its hyperboloid
>  orbit one of the places...
>  
that's an interesting way of looking at it.  i would have thought only of the 
mathematical aspect, with the asymptotes and symmetry, completely missing the 
orbital implications.
steven lytle