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--- Adam COOPER <adamgarrigus@gmail.com> wrote:

> coi ro do
> Lojban does not seem to have a word for "polar
> bear".
> 
> Inuktitut: nanu, nanuq
> French: ours blanc
> Latin/scientific: Ursus maritimus
> Lojban: { cribe la xamsi }? { cribrnanuku }?
> { natnutku }? [I'm really bad at stage-4
> fu'ivla]
> 
Taxonomy being the sort of science it is, my
local zoo gives pbs the genus Thalarktos,
doubling the "bear of the sea" label,
{xasycribe}.  Realistically, one is tempted to
thin insteead of "bear of the ice," {bisycribe}. 
But Nanook of the North has a good claim once the
form is worked out.


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