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[lojban-beginners] Re: Hawk and eagle



On 12/13/05, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:
Actually, this question came from an attempt to translate the following:  
Eagle, this is Hawk, we have seized the building! Over  
Acknowledged, Hawk

I think this might be a situation where one doesn't wish to get hung up on the specific words. In this case you have code names based on two closely related large diurnal birds of prey. So you could choose from {cipnrxakuila vultura cipnrgupa falkone cipnrxalieto cipnrvispreda} to base your form on ({doi .akuiles.} {doi falkon.}) If the characters are named after specific birds, you could use color to distinguish them. But even the ornithologists haven't agreed on how these birds are related, so pe'i Lojban would do well to wait until that controversy settles down before etching words into the lexicon.
mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan