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[lojban] Re: le gusta co minde mutce



On Monday 03 November 2008 06:57:13 tijlan wrote:
> As for the twister, it's partly due to the irony that kamoshika (Bovidae)
> and shika (Cervidae) are biologically distant but lexically close. It can
> translate as:
>
> kamoshika       - mo      | shika    - mo      |      || shika        - da
>
>   | ga
>
> la .kamomirlin. - ku ji'a | lo mirli - ku ji'a | zo'u || mirli (pe'a) -
> (ju'a) | ku'i

Well the other part, "tashika ashika wa shika de wa nai," is about the sea 
lion, which isn't even an ungulate. The serow, like the deer, is a ruminant 
ungulate with head appendages.

Pierre


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