On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Monday, July 09, 2012 09:28:26 AM Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Also, it doesn't matter how much kinship pomegranates and apples share, for
> the same reason it doesn't matter that lo latcribe is neither bear nor cat.
> Descriptive metaphors are to'e forbidden in Lojban.
lo latcribe be la barda ku ja'a cribe .iku'i lo latcribe be la cmalu cu se
steci lo ka lazyjutsi pamei
Yes, I know. The Red Panda is cousin of the racoon. I should've realized that latcribe referred to Giant Panda as well.
On Monday, July 09, 2012 12:43:16 PM Paul Predkiewicz wrote:
> Or, you could even put the phoenecians into the game, "who were active
> in broadening its cultivation, partly for religious reasons." as
> wikipedia puts it.
The Phoenicians being active in broadening its cultivation is an argument for
calling it "rimbone", as Phoenician was closely related to Hebrew. Or should
it be "rimbonu"?
Pierre
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