From phma@webjockey.net Tue Aug 06 13:32:10 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 6 Aug 2002 20:32:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 60597 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2002 20:32:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Aug 2002 20:32:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Aug 2002 20:32:09 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9981C3C477; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 16:32:07 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: panje Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 16:32:04 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0208061632050C.02750@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 The gloss for "panje" is "sponge", with a metaphorical extension to coral and Swiss cheese. In English, "sponge" means an animal of the phylum Porifera, or a three-dimensional object that is full of holes throughout. The meanings overlap (my bath sponge is both), but I don't see how the word is extended to corals, which belong to the Cnidaria and don't have holes throughout. Can someone explain? What should we call sponges, in the Porifera sense? What should we call corals? phma