Subject: Re: [lojban] backemselrerkru

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:20:34 -0500

On Wed, 31 Dec 1969, michael helsem wrote:
>>From: Arnt Richard Johansen <[email-masked]>
> li'o
>>What does the "bancu" in "backemselrerkru" mean?
>
>kind of looks like someone was trying to make a word
>for "hyperbola" from what they thought was a word for
>"parabola". i would rather use TE JUNTA plus KRUVI which
>makes the gravity connection explicit. but TERJUNTYKRUBACRU
>is sure a mouthful. what goes in a hyperbola besides comets,
>anyway? better to borrow a word for that, & make its hyperboloid
>orbit one of the places...

Hyperbolas aren't just the trajectory of a one-time orbit. The shadow cast by a
vertical lampshade on a vertical wall is also a hyperbola, or more often
branches of two different hyperbolas. The graph of y=1/x is a hyperbola. 

phma