From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Wed Aug 11 13:25:45 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:25:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.189.121.177] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BuzfE-0002LB-Vk for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:25:37 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4885E4B07; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:25:04 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:25:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200408080634.18420.phma@phma.hn.org> <200408111420.15452.phma@phma.hn.org> <20040811183620.GW30673@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20040811183620.GW30673@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408111625.03899.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8412 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wednesday 11 August 2004 14:36, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > What does "branching" mean in this case? IMO, it's a hierarchical > relationship in nature. Perhaps something with both jimca and vipsu, or > with jicmu or, for that matter, farvi? Yeah, maybe farvi is best. "Branching" means that one species becomes several species. {farvi} means that one species becomes another species. In languages, Latin branched into Sardinian, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, French, etc., while Attic developed into Modern Greek but did not branch (Tsakonian is descended from another ancient dialect). phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa