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Re: [lojban] baby words: diaper cover



 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:32:15AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>
>> In the context of cloth diapers, a diaper cover is a plastic outer
>> wrap that protects everything else from the urine-soaked diaper.
>>
>> https://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&ix=c2&q=diaper+cover&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1920&bih=1075&sei=52fWTov7JOqpiAKn-eGgDA
>>
>> Is it gacri or skapi or is it a stylistic choice?  I believe the
>> latter.  In fact, they even have the same place structure; I'm not
>> at all certain what the difference is between the two words,
>> except that skapi implies sruri.
>>
>> Are there other words you might use?
>
> Oh, also, I note the existence of {calku} (which doesn't work here),
> which I find amusingly pointless since you could just give {skapi} a
> third place.  Not that gismu are intended to partition, as the book
> says.
>
> -Robin
>

 Bandu would be where I would tend to go (and yeah, calku would work,
too, actually)

             --gejyspa

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