From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Thu Jul 05 06:12:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 5 Jul 2001 13:12:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 27476 invoked from network); 5 Jul 2001 13:12:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 Jul 2001 13:12:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Jul 2001 13:12:40 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f65DCeO07295 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 07:12:40 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 07:12:40 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Fins In-Reply-To: <0107050646190W.23937@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote: > We have the word {fipybirka} for "fin", but what about pelvic fins, dorsal, > anal, adipose, and caudal fins, and fins on things that aren't fish, such as > rockets? Well, keep in mind that a fin is meant to stablize (and control) motion through a fluid (engineering sense, wherein gases are fluids, too - likti works for that, right?). So a tanru like {likti muvdu stodi cabra} is what comes to my mind immediately, but it seems to be lacking. muvdu and cabra are particularly annoying to me. - Jay Kominek