Re: Need a gismu or lujvo...

[Logical Language Group <lojbab>]

la kris. bogart. cusku di'e

> I need a gismu that means something "functions".  How would you say "This
> perpetual motion machine doesn't really work"?  "spofu" comes to mind, but a
> PMM isn't really broken as such -- it's something that couldn't have worked
> in the first place.
> 
> "le cinmymuvmi'i cu na gasnu le ri se minji" is the best I can think of...

I think that "minji" itself works fine:

	le cinmymuvmi'i cu na'e minji

This is no paradox, because of the intentionality of "le".

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