Re: [lojban] Re: honeysuckle

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Saturday 08 May 2004 20:05, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 08:03:06PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > 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.

{loncera} it is, then. ({lonycera} is not a possible word.)

> > 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.

ki'a?

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

It'll take a long time for all taxonomists to agree. There are splitters and 
lumpers, cladists and Linneans, geneticists and pheneticists. Shea butter has 
three different scientific names depending on whom you ask: Butyrospermum 
parkii, B. paradoxum, and Vitellaria paradoxa. I call it {matnrcetulu}, from 
an African word of which "shea" is a shortening. And sometimes I don't call 
it anything, I mix it with jojoba and some other stuff and rub it on my skin.

phma
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