From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Aug 13 14:18:18 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BvjRD-000567-A3 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:18:11 -0700 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:18:11 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: bifce Message-ID: <20040813211811.GD30673@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200408131714.00383.phma@phma.hn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408131714.00383.phma@phma.hn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8444 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 Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 05:14:00PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > {bifce} is glossed as "bee/wasp/hornet". "Bee" means any member of the > superfamily Apoidea, "ant" means any member of the family Formicidae > in the superfamily Vespoidea, and "wasp" means any member of Apocrita > that isn't a bee or an ant (including the hornets, which are in > Vespoidea). (I am ignoring spelling bees, WASPs, and any other senses > that aren't Hymenoptera.) What words can we use to distinguish bees > and any other bifce that might need distinguishing? On the off chance I haven't previously made it obvious, I feel that I have no actual skill with this sort of question, and am not deliberately ignoring you. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"