Re: [lojban] mi puba'o fanva

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Thursday, December 19, 2013 21:03:18 lorxus wrote:
> My guess is that it is meant to be surreal and barely sensible, but that
> it should be taken loosely to mean that after the tractors have tract-ed
> along the spiral paths, (which originated in a special spot) then at points
> equidistant along the arms of the spiral, salt blocks are placed. As for
> the lujvo, forgot I need to glue vowel-ending rafsi together. Why is
> {jvajvo} valid, though?

"jvajvo" cannot be split into two cmavo; "du'ida'o" can.

> Not sure if this works, on reflection. Source text talks about the machine
> *weighing* 17.3 tons, and thus the tons cannot be metric. What would be a
> good gismu to use here?

"Weigh" is often used as a verb when talking about mass. There isn't a gismu 
for "ton". I'd keep "megygra".

Pierre
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