From phma@webjockey.net Sun Mar 31 07:43:49 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 31 Mar 2002 15:43:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 28549 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2002 15:43:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 31 Mar 2002 15:43:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Mar 2002 15:43:48 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id F13993C478; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 10:43:45 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: armoraci Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 10:43:41 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <0203310809540K.02368@neofelis> <052301c1d8c6$5dda5b00$e5b7003e@oemcomputer> In-Reply-To: <052301c1d8c6$5dda5b00$e5b7003e@oemcomputer> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0203311043410L.02368@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Sunday 31 March 2002 10:11, Adam Raizen wrote: > You're right (pardon my ignorance of taxonomy). I was trying to say > "Romaine lettuce", which is Lactuca sativa variety longifolia. So how do > you say specifically *romaine* lettuce, since Lactuca sativa is the species > which includes most kinds of lettuce, and longifolia is a species or > variety of several different genera? Maybe 'clapezli kobrlaktuka'? Sounds good, except that lettuce is not in the cabbage family (it's in spatrkomposita/spatrxasterace, and is already there). Tanru are good for common names for a lot of species and varieties; if you want to be specific, add {be la'o ly ... ly}. phma