From lojban-out@lojban.org Wed Aug 11 13:35:51 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 51532 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2004 20:35:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Aug 2004 20:35:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Aug 2004 20:35:50 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1Buzm0-0002U9-0t for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:32:36 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BuzlH-0002TQ-5k; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:31:51 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1Buzl5-0002T9-73 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:31:39 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:31:39 -0700 Message-ID: <20040811203139.GB30673@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200408080634.18420.phma@phma.hn.org> <200408111420.15452.phma@phma.hn.org> <20040811183620.GW30673@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <200408111625.03899.phma@phma.hn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408111625.03899.phma@phma.hn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i X-archive-position: 8413 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 X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22833 On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:25:03PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 11 August 2004 14:36, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > What does "branching" mean in this case? IMO, it's a hierarchical > > relationship in nature. Perhaps something with both jimca and > > vipsu, or with jicmu or, for that matter, farvi? Yeah, maybe farvi > > is best. > > "Branching" means that one species becomes several species. {farvi} > means that one species becomes another species. I don't see that assumption of singularity built into {farvi} *at* *all*. -Robin > In languages, Latin branched into Sardinian, Romanian, Italian, > Spanish, French, etc., while Attic developed into Modern Greek but did > not branch (Tsakonian is descended from another ancient dialect). lo latmo bangu cu farvi lo fraso bangu .e lo spano bangu .e li'e .i la atik cu farvi lo xelso bangu po'o -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"