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Jorge Llambías wrote:
> la sanxiyn cusku di'e
> 
> 
>>If my understanding is correct,
>>"commensalism" does not mean that the arrangement is commensal:
>>it just means what it is. (I am not specialized in this area! Do
>>not ask me how _exactly_ commensalism is defined.)
> 
> 
> Etymologically "commensal" means co-tabler, one who shares
> the table. Commensalism is a symbiotic relationship where one
> of the species benefits and the other is unaffected, so one of
> the species is welcome to the table of the other, as it were.

Interesting. In Turkish "komensal" just means "parasite", and is often 
used metaphorically; e.g. "komensal hayat" is an unproductive life lived 
at the expense of others.

robin.tr

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