From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Sep 10 09:51:58 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 10 Sep 2001 16:51:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 85993 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2001 16:33:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 10 Sep 2001 16:33:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 10 Sep 2001 16:33:54 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06149; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:35:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B9CEB11.6050406@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:32:17 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: phma@oltronics.net Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Antelopes References: <0109091921452Z.05217@neofelis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat wrote: > I'm not sure it's wise to have a word for "antelope" since > it doesn't correspond to anything taxonomic. I see no problem with it. Are you so cladistic that you deny that a lungfish is a finpe, e.g.? -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel