From phma@oltronics.net Mon Nov 27 19:34:18 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@oltronics.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 28 Nov 2000 03:34:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 58247 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2000 03:34:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Nov 2000 03:34:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta2 with SMTP; 28 Nov 2000 03:34:18 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA23958 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:34:09 -0500 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.36, neofelis, , 207.15.133.36 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 22:34:12(EST) on November 27, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] backemselrerkru Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:20:34 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00112722324100.01050@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Wed, 31 Dec 1969, michael helsem wrote: >>From: Arnt Richard Johansen > 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