From phma@webjockey.net Fri Aug 09 10:11:59 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 9 Aug 2002 17:11:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 95278 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2002 17:11:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 Aug 2002 17:11:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Aug 2002 17:11:58 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 41D0C3C487; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:11:57 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Who wrote the Gismu Thesaurus (was: Gismu Thesaurus) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:11:55 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200208091715.NAA00503@mail2.reutershealth.com> In-Reply-To: <200208091715.NAA00503@mail2.reutershealth.com> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0208091311550W.18087@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Friday 09 August 2002 13:02, John Cowan wrote: > sklyanin scripsit: > > sobde: x1 is a quantity of soya [grain/bean] of species/strain x2 > > > > Isn't it possible to refer to any eatable seed as "grain"? > > Normally, no; no one would refer to walnuts or lima beans as "grains". > Normally, "grain" refers only to the seeds of cereal grasses (as wheat, > rye, maize, barley, etc.), but apparently in commercial/legal usage > (not in ordinary speech) soybeans are reckoned grains as well. .i lo'e tsijrkinua .e lo'e tsijrmaranto .e lo'e xrixruba mo? mu'omi'e pier.