[lojban] Re: Symbiosis and related topics

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

la sanxiyn cusku di'e

> If my understanding is correct,
> "commensalism" does not mean that the arrangement is commensal:
> it just means what it is. (I am not specialized in this area! Do
> not ask me how _exactly_ commensalism is defined.)

Etymologically "commensal" means co-tabler, one who shares
the table. Commensalism is a symbiotic relationship where one
of the species benefits and the other is unaffected, so one of
the species is welcome to the table of the other, as it were.

> ---- Lojban coinages
> Now, my rendering of above calques into Lojban:
> 
> gunma jmive (gumji'e)
>  x1 is symbiotic system, composed of symbionts x2.

Other variants:
mivykansa: x1 is in a symbiotic relationship with x2.
mivykansi'u: x1 (mass) are in a symbiotic relationship.

> simxu xamgu (simxau)
>  x1 is a set of mutually beneficial members x2.

I would say

xaursi'u: x1 (mass) are mutually beneficial (by standard x2). 
simxau: x1 and x2 are beneficial for one another (by standard x3).

This is because it is normally the last component of the lujvo that
determines the place structure. 

Maybe to be systematic:

mivykansa: x1 symbiotic with x2 (nu mivykansa: symbiosis)
mivysimxau: x1 mutually beneficial with x2 (nu mivysimxau: mutualism)
mivyvi'e: x1 is a commensal of x2 (nu mivyvi'e: commensalism)
mivyxaitcu: x1 is a parasite of x2 (nu mivyxaitcu: parasitism)

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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