Re: [lojban] voi

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Saturday 16 October 2010 20:09:27 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Well, you said there were three species of elephant, and only two of them
> are African, yes? So the {poi friko} is somewhat more specific, just not
> between the two you're talking about. :D

"sa'orselde'i" describes African elephants, not Asian ones. Not that I've ever
looked in an elephant's mouth, but IIUR, the ridges on Africans are oblique,
while those on Asians aren't.

Pierre
--
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

Are you a zoologist, by chance? Because it is very apparent that you have a great deal more knowledge about species than I. Until this conversation, all I knew about elephants was that there were two kinds, the African and the Asian, and that they are related to the long extinct mammoth.

I had no idea that there were two kinds of African elephants or any os the other things you've since pointed out to me.

-- 
mu'o mi'e .aionys.

.i.a'o.e'e ko cmima le bende pe lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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