From pycyn@aol.com Tue Oct 30 10:43:34 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 30 Oct 2001 18:43:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 41286 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2001 18:43:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.223 with QMQP; 30 Oct 2001 18:43:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d03.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.35) by mta3 with SMTP; 30 Oct 2001 18:43:34 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.8.) id r.d.1c7ef63c (4588) for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:43:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:43:22 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Moss and lichen To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_d.1c7ef63c.29104eca_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11780 --part1_d.1c7ef63c.29104eca_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/29/2001 8:29:09 PM Central Standard Time, phma@oltronics.net writes: > There is a gismu {clika} which is glossed as moss or lichen. Which is it? > The > two are completely different and are not even in the same kingdom. voc gives > I suppose it is hopeless at this point to remind you that Lojban is an ordinary, not a scientific, language at its base, so it tends to groups things as ordinary people do, not as scientists do: molds (except mushrooms, toadstools, and yeast), lichens, and moss (and maybe even a few ferns) all go into the same pot in folk speech. --part1_d.1c7ef63c.29104eca_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/29/2001 8:29:09 PM Central Standard Time, phma@oltronics.net writes:


There is a gismu {clika} which is glossed as moss or lichen. Which is it? The
two are completely different and are not even in the same kingdom. voc gives


I suppose it is hopeless at this point to remind you that Lojban is an ordinary, not a scientific, language at its base, so it tends to groups things as ordinary people do, not as scientists do: molds (except mushrooms, toadstools, and yeast), lichens, and moss (and maybe even a few ferns) all go into the same pot in folk speech.   --part1_d.1c7ef63c.29104eca_boundary--