From BestATN@aol.com Tue Nov 28 15:29:33 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: BestATN@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 28 Nov 2000 23:29:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 99254 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2000 23:29:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Nov 2000 23:29:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r01.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.1) by mta1 with SMTP; 28 Nov 2000 23:29:31 -0000 Received: from BestATN@aol.com by imo-r01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.34.) id a.2f.d81600e (4225) for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:29:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <2f.d81600e.275599c7@aol.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:29:11 EST Subject: hyperbola To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 124 From: BestATN@aol.com In a message dated 11/28/2000 06:45:09 Eastern Standard Time, lojban@egroups.com writes: > 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... > that's an interesting way of looking at it. i would have thought only of the mathematical aspect, with the asymptotes and symmetry, completely missing the orbital implications. steven lytle