From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 25 14:53:53 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:53:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MrIjg-0006SC-NZ for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:53:52 -0700 Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net ([68.230.240.7]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MrIjd-0006Rt-Go for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:53:52 -0700 Received: from eastrmimpo03.cox.net ([68.1.16.126]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20090925215342.YJSL6358.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:53:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([70.187.235.94]) by eastrmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id l9ti1c00522sj6m029tilE; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:53:43 -0400 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=xAPrY63-gaEA:10 a=e_R-nFpDfpHRS-T5WLQA:9 a=4efYs9V3e5G4GWmEFY-bO6-QoMgA:4 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4ABD3BFA.2050604@lojban.org> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:54:02 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: How many possible gismu? References: <200909242242.10862.phma@phma.optus.nu> In-Reply-To: <200909242242.10862.phma@phma.optus.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 16251 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Pierre Abbat wrote: > As to taxonomy: there are two gismu for birds in Anseriformes and two for > birds in Galliformes, but the rest of the birds, including the by far largest > order Passeriformes, are deserted. There are two gismu for rodents, but mice > and rats are fairly close within the rodents, so it's not clear which gismu > to use for other kinds of rodents. And there are no gismu at all for kinds of > fish, just the general "finpe". > > In plants, "xruba" and "guzme" denote families, "rozgu" denotes a genus, > and "latna" doesn't denote a taxon. I'm not sure if "cunmi" is taxonomically > sound. There was no attempt to make gismu taxonomical, nor taxonomically sound. None of the gismu for plants or animals necessarily correlates to any standard taxon ("usage will decide"), and thus finpe might include whales and dolphins (in appropriate lujvo of course). The goal was to incorporate concepts of cultural significance and/or words that might be used in lujvo. lojbab To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.