From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Sat Jan 15 15:13:43 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:13:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from phma.hn.org ([216.189.113.165] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cpx6u-0006L4-BY for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:13:36 -0800 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 560C44C2F; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:13:04 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Octopus? Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:13:01 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20050115202824.GH10940@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501151813.01713.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 9272 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 Saturday 15 January 2005 15:58, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > Should octopus be a lujvo or a linnean fu'ivla? In either case, > > what word would you use? > > If a lujvo, wouldn't "bivyselbirka" be okay? x2 of that is the tentacles. I prefer {bivjmacurnu} or {bivbircurnu}. What's the difference between a squid and an octopus? A squid has tentacles. An octopus has eight. :) phma -- Mes règles mensuelles ont lieu une fois par an. -Les Perles de la médecine