Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Bulrushes

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:49:24 -0400

At 05:23 PM 10/16/01 +0000, A.W.T. wrote:
>--- In lojban@y..., Pierre Abbat <phma@o...> 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
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