Re: [lojban] curnu

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 22:06:22 la gleki wrote:
> On Friday, December 28, 2012 8:33:24 AM UTC+4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 27, 2012 19:36:38 vitci'i wrote:
> > > It's a baramin, not a clade.
> > 
> > What?! You mean that God created the ur-worm which then diversified into
> > flatworms, roundworms, earthworms, silkworms, and slowworms? No way.
> 
> It's not God. {curnu} is a term used by primitive savage Lojbanists that
> lived near the Amazon river thousands of years ago.

Ah, you mean a folk-taxon. I've known all along that "curnu" does not denote a 
clade or Linnean taxon, unlike e.g. "guzme" (member of Cucurbitaceae) or 
"xruba" (member of Polygonaceae). The question is, what does it denote? What 
is included in loi curnu?

Pierre
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