From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 26 11:28:19 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:28:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1AP5Kf-00075B-UY for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:28:13 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:28:13 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: bakyjba Message-ID: <20031126192813.GU9729@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20031125180200.GU9729@digitalkingdom.org> <20031125184043.49942.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> <20031125191407.GF26214@mercury.ccil.org> <20031125192257.GG9729@digitalkingdom.org> <1069835538.29757.12.camel@ludvig.safelogic.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1069835538.29757.12.camel@ludvig.safelogic.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6805 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:32:19AM +0100, Martin Norb?ck wrote: > tis 2003-11-25 klockan 20.22 skrev Robin Lee Powell: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:14:07PM -0500, John Cowan wrote: > > > Other species in Vaccinium include the lingonberry = mountain > > > cranberry, the whortleberry = huckleberry, and the bilberries > > > (it's possible that "blueberry" is a folk etymology of > > > "bilberry"). > > > > I have heard that bilberries are the only truly blue fruit. > > The fruit that we in Sweden call "bl?b?r" [blueberry] is Vaccinium > myrtillus which may be what you call "bilberry". > > They are very much blue, see for instance this picture: > http://www.voringfossen.com/flora/blaabaer.jpg That is rather strikingly bluer then the blueberries I eat, yes. I have some in front of me, in fact, and the insides range from red-ish near the skin to white at the center. Just for the record. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui