From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Tue Sep 04 23:43:19 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 5 Sep 2001 06:43:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 21451 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2001 06:43:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Sep 2001 06:43:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Sep 2001 06:43:18 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f856hEN10632 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:43:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:43:14 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Questions and observations about taxonomy In-Reply-To: <0109050059520X.05217@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote: > Are both millipedes and centipedes clacinki? Are either of them clacinki? Aren't there other bugs that are notably long? > Can anyone think of a better common name for a pigeon than {tcacpi}? kalcycpi to zo'o toi > Does the term {xanto} include the mammoth as well as the elephants? (aske= d by > nitcion) how far apart are they evolutionarily? since x2 references species, I'd think that anything lo xanto has to be in the same genus or at least family as the modern elephant. kerfa xanto lujvo'ized seems like it could be a mammoth, though. > What exactly does {smani} mean? (asked by me a long time ago, with no ans= wer, > and again by nitcion) primate significantly below humans on the evolutionary ladder? - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose