From phma@oltronics.net Mon Sep 10 18:52:28 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 11 Sep 2001 01:52:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 51402 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2001 01:51:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Sep 2001 01:51:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.234) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Sep 2001 01:50:59 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id AC3F93C4C1; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:15:29 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Antelopes Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:15:26 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <0109091921452Z.05217@neofelis> <3B9CEB11.6050406@reutershealth.com> In-Reply-To: <3B9CEB11.6050406@reutershealth.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01091018152609.05004@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Monday 10 September 2001 12:32, John Cowan wrote: > Pierre Abbat wrote: > > I'm not sure it's wise to have a word for "antelope" since > > it doesn't correspond to anything taxonomic. > > I see no problem with it. Are you so cladistic that you deny > that a lungfish is a finpe, e.g.? I am not cladistic; quite the contrary. And I'll put the lungfish and the gombessa in the jutske page one of these days. (Still haven't found a good common name for shark.) As to the antelope, I have no problem using the word {antilope} for the blackbuck. See my message after the one you're answering (well you can't, it's stuck in my mailserver for some reason). And the "antelopes" in Bovinae could reasonably be called bajbakni. But in English "antelope" is a catchall term, apparently referring to any bovid that isn't a cow, sheep, or goat or a few others. phma