Re: [lojban] panje

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 07:02 PM 8/6/02 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> In a
> message dated 8/6/2002 3:33:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
> phma@webjockey.net writes:
>
>
> > a three-dimensional object that is
> > full of holes throughout. The meanings 
> > overlap (my bath sponge is both), but I don't see how the word is
> > extended to 
> > corals, which belong to the Cnidaria and don't have holes throughout. Can
> > someone explain? What should we call sponges, in the Porifera sense? What
> > should we call corals?
>
> Maybe it means "mostly untravelling spineless critters in
> oceans," but that doesn't cover the general "porous
> material" sense (does holystone count?) .  I think the creators
> went off in two directions from the Porifera and failed to reconcile
> them.  The emphasis is clearly on the porous, though,.  I
> suppose that Porifera are {panje danlu}, "spongy critters" or
> whatever fu'ivlos out of {danlu porifera}.  Individual corals and
> certain coral structures are not very beholed, but at least some types of
> coral reefs are -- as well as some other coral structures (brains,
> e.g.).  Maybe that is a further ground for the slide. 

Yes the intent was coral structures.  We specifically eschewed
attempting to line the gismu up with standard biological classification
schemas, which should be fu'ivla if you want to be technical, or lujvo if
you want to be expressive.

lojbab

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