From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Wed Feb 26 17:21:34 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:21:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from p3ee2b5cb.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.226.181.203] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18oCjn-0000P5-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:21:28 -0800 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 09AC34525; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:21:37 +0100 (MET) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: Subject: [lojban] Re: species in jbovlaste Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:21:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302270221.36668.phma@webjockey.net> X-archive-position: 4184 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thursday 27 February 2003 00:15, Craig wrote: > >I'm inclined to agree, even though I don't know what Bertcad Midval is. > > Well, bertcad is a city. Although it is in southwestern Lojbanistan, it is > the south that is the most densely populated. Although there are towns > further north, bertcad is the northernmost actual city. It is also the > capital of Lojbanistan. 'mivdal' appears to be a cmenized form of > 'mivdanlu'. Thus, I would guess that it is meant to mean the zoo, although > it seems closer to 'a live animal in bertcad'. It is the zoo. "mivdal" is a clipped word, "mivdalmuzga" being a bit long (at least to me, who am used to a one-syllable word for it). phma