From lojbab@lojban.org Tue Oct 16 20:06:35 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 17 Oct 2001 03:06:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 61071 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2001 03:06:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Oct 2001 03:06:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-2.cais.net) (205.252.14.72) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Oct 2001 03:06:31 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (209-8-89-116.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.116]) by stmpy-2.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f9H36To44537 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011016224646.00c28910@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:49:24 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Bulrushes In-Reply-To: <9qhqf6+mq9s@eGroups.com> References: <01101523272212.02047@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 05:23 PM 10/16/01 +0000, A.W.T. wrote: >--- In lojban@y..., Pierre Abbat wrote: > > I am attempting to translate Exodus 2 and am getting lost in the > bulrushes. >Very confusing these botanical issues - at least to me :( So let me try to = >be a bit systematically. > >1) What I always have been familiar with from my childhood was that Moses h= >ad been put into a "Binsenkörbchen" (little basket >made of rush) - most probably, this goes back to Martin Luther's first Germ= >an translation of the Bible. Which of course gives the useful answer. The exact species of plant is unimportant. The point is that it is a plant used to weave a boat from. Thus a lujvo for weave-grass, or weave-stalk, or plant-woven material will be optimal. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org