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Re: [lojban] Taxonomy



At 07:57 PM 07/16/2001 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote:
>Already thought of that and built it into the language.
>
>Starting from the end of your list, the words are jutsi, seljutsi,
>terjutsi, veljutsi, xemjutsi, and then perhaps (because it has never come
>up before) selxavjutsi, selzeljutsi

But it says: "places do not correspond to specific levels in the hierarchy".
Also, there are suborders, infraorders, subgenera, subphyla, etc.

That is precisely why places do not correspond to specific levels in the hierarchy. There is no specific meaning of "order" that identifies how many levels down or up it is within the tree. But when you talk about a specific Order, using a particular classification system, then you do know where it stands within the tree - whether there is a subphylum above it for example.

lojbab
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