Re: [lojban] What is the x3 of tubnu?

I had actually asked that question on the list back on 2/22/08:

preti
.i ma tertu'u to te tubnu toi
.i ri du da poi ca'a nenri lo tubnu gi'i pu se vimcu fi lo tubnu

Both xorxes and selckiku agreed at the time the asnwer was "gi'u"

--gejyspa

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

Agreed.

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

That's what would be *useful*, but in that case you'd just say
"filled with x3", or perhaps "for being filled with x3".

So many wording problems in the gismu list. -_-

-Robin

On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 07:54:29PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Ah, yes. I must have glossed over the x2 bit. I thought it was something
> else. In that case, I would suppose that the x3 is what is currently
> occupying the hollow region of the tube, such as water in plumbing, similar
> to the x2 of botpi. Further, I would guess that the reason for the
> awkwardness of its phrasing is due to the uncommonness of the concept
> attempting to be expressed in English.
>
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I think it's missing a comma: "... hollow, of material x3".
> >
> > I disagree, since that makes x2=x3.
> >
> > I suspect it's intended to be a place that is never filled but allows
> > you to describe what has been bored out as lo te tubnu, but this
> > doesn't actually seem like an especially useful thing to have done so
> > perhaps it is something subtler that I'm not seeing.
> >
> > - mi'e .kreig.
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