Re: [lojban] Big baby words list

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Even so, I would think hiccuping is more similar to the opposite- and even
> then, isn't a hiccup a sudden outflow of air? Gulping, swallowing, etc.,
> don't really have anything to do with the lungs....

It's an intake of air, not an outflow, a kind of gulping:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup
"These proposals explain why premature infants spend 2.5% of their
time hiccuping, indeed they are gulping just like amphibians, as their
lungs are not yet fully formed."

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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