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[lojban-beginners] Re: smani



On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:15 PM, tijlan <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
What is the taxonomical definition of lo smani? Is it:

1) Primate (an order: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate)

or

2) Ape/Hominoidea (a superfamily of Primate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominoids)

or

3) Great Ape/Hominidae (a family of Hominoidea:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape)

or something else?

According to the gimste, "ape" is included. But I'm not too sure
whether it's the ape in the sense of (2).

The largest category in the definition is the infraorder simian < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simian >. So I'd argue it's invalid to assume it's more restrictive than that.

It has been proposed that {smani} be used for the order primates < http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=mabru+klejutsi&bl=y >

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