From phma@oltronics.net Mon Oct 29 18:42:08 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 30 Oct 2001 02:42:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 17782 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2001 02:42:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 Oct 2001 02:42:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.241) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 Oct 2001 02:42:02 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id C03623C509; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:41:53 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Moss and lichen Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:41:52 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0110292141520I.01133@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Monday 29 October 2001 21:25, Craig wrote: > I'd go with Moss, since it is definable as one organism. Lichen is two in > symbiosis, and it thus less useful for taxonomy, which I know is what you > are using it for. But if it is moss, what do we call lichen? And if it is lichen, what do we call moss? Besides, lichens are classified taxonomically; they are mostly ascomycetes, IIRR. They are classified by the fungus component. Of the six words, the two I recognize are both lichen. What are the rest? phma