From sklyanin@pdmi.ras.ru Thu Jun 29 08:47:59 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4730 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2000 15:43:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Jun 2000 15:43:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hl.egroups.com) (10.1.10.44) by mta1 with SMTP; 29 Jun 2000 15:43:57 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sklyanin@pdmi.ras.ru Received: from [10.1.10.123] by hl.egroups.com with NNFMP; 29 Jun 2000 15:43:56 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:43:50 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: More about bottles Message-ID: <8jfqrm+gars@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <20000629003615.A6492@twcny.rr.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 751 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster From: "Evgueni Sklyanin" --- In lojban@egroups.com, rob@t... wrote: > I can get how something can be a 'botpi' as long as it is potentially going to > bottle something. But that's only the x2 place. Consider the place 'with lid > x4'. If a bottle is designed in such a way that it does not have a lid, and > it's a pretty slim chance that it'll even potentially have a lid, is it a botpi? > > -- > Rob Speer Perhaps, {patxu} will do? patxu [ pax ] pot x1 is a pot/kettle/urn/tub/sink, a deep container for contents x2, of material/properties x3 The main difference between {patxu} and {botpi} botpi [ bot bo'i ] bottle x1 is a bottle/jar/urn/flask/closable container for x2, made of material x3 with lid x4 seems to be the closability. co'o mi'e .evgenis.