From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat May 08 17:05:53 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 08 May 2004 17:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BMbpD-0005PJ-4p for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 17:05:47 -0700 Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 17:05:47 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: honeysuckle Message-ID: <20040509000547.GV15961@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200405081925.01595.phma@webjockey.net> <20040508232713.GG15961@digitalkingdom.org> <200405082003.06594.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405082003.06594.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7714 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 08:03:06PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Saturday 08 May 2004 19:27, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 07:25:01PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > > The honeysuckle is Lonicera caprifolium and other species, where > > > "Lonicer" is someone's name and "caprifolium" means "goat leaf". > > > What should it be called in Lojban? > > > > > > * loncera > > > > > > * loincera > > > > > > * kanbypezli > > > > > > * any other ideas? > > > > Are there other members of Lonicera? > > Yes, and they're all honeysuckle as far as I'm concerned, so I'd pick > one word and put the species name in x2. 'loncera' or 'lonycera', then. > There are other members of the family, which I don't know much about. > Some taxonomists put the elderberry (Sambucus; I think I called it > {sambuku} somewhere) in this family. FFS. Can we wait until the damned taxonimists have all this stuff sorted out, and *then* name them? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi