From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Apr 23 13:33:26 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:33:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FXlGU-0001hM-N3 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:33:06 -0700 Received: from phma.hn.org ([166.82.175.165] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FXlGL-0001gf-B6 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:33:06 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1F82C2ABF; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:32:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] rasykobli Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:32:42 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604231632.46324.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 11335 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.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list A few days ago I went to the International Supermarket (which is mostly East Asian) looking for gai lan (Chinese broccoli). I saw something similar, but it was called something else. It was listed as yu choy on the receipt. I never heard of that, so I googled. The name is Cantonese (the Mandarin is you cai) for "oil cabbage" or "oil vegetable", and it is Brassica napus, the same species as canola. I previously called that species {koblnrapa}, but because the rape and the neep are respectively B. napus and B. rapa, I think that that word could cause confusion and should be replaced with {rasykobli}. That leaves the question of what to call the turnip. {gejykobli} is a possibility, but it could also be applied to the rutabaga and the kohlrabi. Or it could be a non-specific term for any brassicaceous root vegetable. {turnipe} is another possibility. Any other ideas? phma To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.