[lojban] Re: How many possible gismu?

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> As to taxonomy: there are two gismu for birds in Anseriformes and two for 
> birds in Galliformes, but the rest of the birds, including the by far largest 
> order Passeriformes, are deserted. There are two gismu for rodents, but mice 
> and rats are fairly close within the rodents, so it's not clear which gismu 
> to use for other kinds of rodents. And there are no gismu at all for kinds of 
> fish, just the general "finpe".
>
> In plants, "xruba" and "guzme" denote families, "rozgu" denotes a genus, 
> and "latna" doesn't denote a taxon. I'm not sure if "cunmi" is taxonomically 
> sound.

There was no attempt to make gismu taxonomical, nor taxonomically sound. 
 None of the gismu for plants or animals necessarily correlates to any 
standard taxon ("usage will decide"), and thus finpe might include 
whales and dolphins (in appropriate lujvo of course).  The goal was to 
incorporate concepts of cultural significance and/or words that might be 
used in lujvo.

lojbab


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