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Re: [lojban] Re: emotions

At 10:14 PM 5/26/03 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: 
On Monday 26 May 2003 21:38, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
li'o
> Even so, there were some gaps left. For example, one that came up
> recently on the list:
>
> tirna sance
> viska jvinu
> sumne panci
> pencu tengu
> ????? vrusi

Another one: bratu, snime, *sicpi. carvi doesn't mean "is rain"; it refers to
the falling of any kind of precipitation.

no idea what sicpi means, but liquid rain is simply djacu carvi (which we've also used for "shower" around here since the earliest days.

Also, the set of bird gismu is decidedly lopsided: two Anseriformes, two
Galliformes, and none of any other order including the most speciose by far,
Passeriformes.

The birds that were added were primarily because they were major food birds or they were especially symbolic in many cultures.

I've said it before, Pierre, that Lojban was NOT trying to design to the Linnean system, and indeed we explicitly chose not to - a good thing since there were only 2 kingdoms when we started instead of the present 5 or 6; we never had a gismu for algae, blue-green or otherwise. JCB always intended Linnean classification to use fu'ivla, and indeed he had a formal borrowing scheme to use in making Linnean names.

lojbab

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