Subject: Re: [lojban] slinku'i test

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:40:50 -0400

Pierre Abbat wrote:

> Why is the slinku'i test called that, and what's a slinku'i?

"Slinku'i" is a hypothetical fu'ivla that fails the slinku'i test,
because "pa slinku'i" would be taken as the lujvo "pas+lin+ku'i".
Neither the fu'ivla nor the lujvo has any other meaning.
The name goes back to Loglan days.

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