[jbovlaste] Re: crab

["* Hieran Makhwali" <sarefo@googlemail.com>]

pierre, i'm well aware of your continuing efforts to culturalize
lojban. i don't think this is the way to go.

mi'e cirzgamanti


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 September 2010 11:55:23 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
>> Why not stick to something generally recognizable
>> or based on Linnaean?
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>> fu'ivla type III:    juknrbrakiura
>> fu'ivla type IV:    barkura/brakiura (yes, they probably need to be
>> massaged).
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> "braxiura" (I prefer the 'x' since it's from a Greek chi) is perfectly valid.
> jbofi'e seems to think it's a lujvo (it translates it as "being big ??(s)"),
> but it's not.
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> I think the set of people who know the scientific name of crabs is much
> smaller than the set of people who know the Spanish or Arabic name.
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> Pierre
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> Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.
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