From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Jul 31 16:58:59 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12764 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2000 23:58:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Jul 2000 23:58:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO publish) (204.243.9.40) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2000 23:58:58 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com by publish (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA00340; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:58:34 -0400 Sender: cowan@reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39860E82.CBB4C26B@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:40:50 -0400 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre Abbat , "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] slinku'i test References: <00073117325103.00899@neofelis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan 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. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)