WIth no surprise, the word "kangre'o" is very similar to the latin "cancer" (which is also the name of the zodiacal sign) and many Italians would be able to relate it to "granchio" (or cancro, the zodiacal sign again) I suspect that other Latin-based languages might do the same.
I would have no clue on what a "braxiura" could be.
Linaean based fu'ivla are not meant to be universally recognizable
- just culturally neutral. I'm not crazy about them and only find them
acceptable when there is no widely recognized word available
(in the world, not just Latin-based languages) , and no reasonable lujvo
can be constructed. That seems to be the case here.
totus
On , Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 September 2010 11:55:23 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
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> > Why not stick to something generally recognizable
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> > fu'ivla type III: juknrbrakiura
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> > fu'ivla type IV: barkura/brakiura (yes, they probably need to be
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> "braxiura" (I prefer the 'x' since it's from a Greek chi) is perfectly valid.
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> jbofi'e seems to think it's a lujvo (it translates it as "being big ??(s)"),
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> I think the set of people who know the scientific name of crabs is much
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