From phma@oltronics.net Tue Aug 01 03:54:44 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21460 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2000 10:54:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Aug 2000 10:54:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Aug 2000 10:54:44 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA06436 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 06:54:39 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.23, neofelis, , 207.15.133.23 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 06:54:39(EDT) on August 01, 2000 To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] slinku'i test Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:58:10 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <00073117325103.00899@neofelis> <39860E82.CBB4C26B@reutershealth.com> In-Reply-To: <39860E82.CBB4C26B@reutershealth.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00073123010604.17289@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, John Cowan wrote: >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. I ran jbofi'e on it and got robe-chain-caretaker. Chain-robe-caretaker (linypasku'i) I can understand; it's the curator of a chain-mail museum. So what might a robe-chain-caretaker be? phma