From lojbab@lojban.org Fri May 23 15:22:33 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 23 May 2003 15:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao01.cox.net ([68.1.17.244]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19JKvh-0003G5-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 15:22:26 -0700 Received: from bob.lojban.org ([68.100.92.1]) by lakemtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030523222153.TFZD8337.lakemtao01.cox.net@bob.lojban.org> for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:21:53 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030523181318.0316cd20@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: rlechevalier@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 18:20:56 -0400 To: lojban-list@lojban.org From: Robert LeChevalier Subject: [lojban] Re: protein/albumin In-Reply-To: <200305231547.25759.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 5364 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list At 03:47 PM 5/23/03 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: >There is a gismu {lanbi} which apparently serves for "protein", "albumin", >and >"egg white". The vocs are: >zulalun >albiumin >albumin >danbai >lavan >bilok; >in which "dan" is Chinese for "egg", "bilok" sounds like the Russian for >"white" with "-ok" added, and "lavan", though Hindi, sounds suspiciously like >the Hebrew for "white". I know German nutrition labels say "Eiweiß" for >"protein", but to me they are different: egg white is a part of an egg, >albumin is a protein in egg white, and there are other proteins, such as >myosin. So what words should we use to distinguish them? Many possibilities. A biochemist should be deciding. albumen - blabi lanbi or sovda blabi lanbi or sovda lanbi myosin - matra lanbi >Also, the def in the gimste appears to be missing x3: x1 is a quantity of >protein/albumin of type x2 composed of amino acids (sequence/jo'u). Typo noted for eventual submission to byfy. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org