Re: [lojban] Re: honeysuckle

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 08:03:06PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Saturday 08 May 2004 19:27, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 07:25:01PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > > The honeysuckle is Lonicera caprifolium and other species, where
> > > "Lonicer" is someone's name and "caprifolium" means "goat leaf".
> > > What should it be called in Lojban?
> > >
> > > * loncera
> > >
> > > * loincera
> > >
> > > * kanbypezli
> > >
> > > * any other ideas?
> >
> > Are there other members of Lonicera?
> 
> Yes, and they're all honeysuckle as far as I'm concerned, so I'd pick
> one word and put the species name in x2. 

'loncera' or 'lonycera', then.

> There are other members of the family, which I don't know much about.
> Some taxonomists put the elderberry (Sambucus; I think I called it
> {sambuku} somewhere) in this family.

FFS.

Can we wait until the damned taxonimists have all this stuff sorted out,
and *then* name them?

</sarcasm>

-Robin

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