[lojban] Re: bakyjba

[Martin Norbäck <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

tis 2003-11-25 klockan 20.22 skrev Robin Lee Powell:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:14:07PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > Other species in Vaccinium include the lingonberry = mountain
> > cranberry, the whortleberry = huckleberry, and the bilberries
> > (it's possible that "blueberry" is a folk etymology of
> > "bilberry").
> 
> I have heard that bilberries are the only truly blue fruit.

The fruit that we in Sweden call "blåbär" [blueberry] is Vaccinium
myrtillus which may be what you call "bilberry".

They are very much blue, see for instance this picture:
http://www.voringfossen.com/flora/blaabaer.jpg

The English "blueberry" seems to be Vaccinium corymbosum, which can be
found in North America and Asia.

In general, since different plants grow in different places, the only
clean solution is to use the systematic names. There are some guidelines
for lojbanizing them in the CLL (Chapter 4.8). So the two different
blueberries would be "vakcinium.mirtilus" and "vakcinium.korimbosum".

These a cmene but who cares.

Regards,

	Martin