From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Sat Apr 27 11:20:28 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 27 Apr 2002 18:20:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 79982 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2002 18:20:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Apr 2002 18:20:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2002 18:20:27 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id g3RIKRJ00074 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:20:27 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:20:26 -0600 (MDT) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] xalka cipra In-Reply-To: <0204271213240A.02158@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=20706630 X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Pierre Abbat wrote: > What's a good word for "proof" in the alcoholic sense? The reason it's ca= lled > "proof" is that attempting to explode a mixture of alcohol and gunpowder = was > a test of the concentration of alcohol. {selxabyce'i} works for me, at least. (Assuming I correctly understand that proof =3D 2 * percent alcohol) - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose