Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sat, 4 Sep 1993 13:30:50 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sat, 4 Sep 1993 13:30:47 -0400 Message-Id: <199309041730.AA12123@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3021; Sat, 04 Sep 93 13:29:13 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 0852; Sat, 04 Sep 93 13:32:13 EDT Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1993 13:29:05 EDT Reply-To: Jorge LLambias Sender: Lojban list From: Jorge LLambias Subject: Re: TECH: rhinos X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Sat Sep 4 09:29:05 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET la nitcion cusku di'e > > To John Cowan respond I thus: > > #I think I have now gotten lojbab to agree that "sisku" needs a property in > #x2, because you can look for something which (veridically) is a purple > #rhinoceros, even though in fact there are no purple rhinocerotes (four > #syllables, please). > > rhinocerotes? Really? Because to my knowledge, rhino'keros has always had > the plural rhino'keroi, and Latin has followed suit (rhinoceros, rhinoceri). Then where did the Spanish rinoceronte come from? Jorge