Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 20 Feb 2003 02:15:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from postman.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.87]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18lnk6-0005Ud-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 02:15:51 -0800 Received: from hamwpne1 (pc1-oxfd1-5-cust27.oxfd.cable.ntl.com [62.254.134.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor-online.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h1KAFjJl066402 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:15:47 +0100 (CET) From: "Philip Newton" Organization: datenrevision GmbH & Co. OHG To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:14:20 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: fu'ivla for animals Message-ID: <3E54B88C.21406.1527E9@localhost> Priority: normal References: <004801c2d85c$67b1eda0$a80210ac@catie.ac.cr> In-reply-to: <20030219162834.I40755-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Content-description: Mail message body X-archive-position: 163 X-Approved-By: pnewton@gmx.de X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: pnewton@gmx.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 674 On 19 Feb 2003 at 16:32, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] =C1lvaro Vallejo wrote: > > > If we want to nominate animals, from > > what language are we going to loan words? > > somewhere on the > wiki certain hard-working people have been compiling great lists of them= . > I believe they've been using Latin as the source language. Specifically, the Linnaean nomenclature (is that the right word?). Presumably because that was felt to be fairly international. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- filip.niutyn. All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.