From phma@webjockey.net Wed Feb 26 14:32:27 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_4); 26 Feb 2003 22:32:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 38557 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2003 22:32:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Feb 2003 22:32:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2003 22:32:26 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18oA6E-0003WM-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:32:26 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18oA61-0003W3-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:32:13 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:32:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from p3ee2b5c8.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.226.181.200] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18oA5t-0003Vu-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:32:06 -0800 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6251944C0; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:32:23 +0100 (MET) Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: species in jbovlaste Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:32:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200302262203.06372.phma@webjockey.net> <20030226215155.GV17377@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20030226215155.GV17377@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302262332.22949.phma@webjockey.net> X-archive-position: 4169 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@webjockey.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 22:51, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:03:06PM +0100, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > There are going to be thousands of brivla whose x2 is a species of > > something. (I just added two.) How should these be handled? > > I don't think I understand the question. You seem to have already > figured out how to add the words, so... Should x2 be "species" or "species of gambier/peacock/walrus" or "gambier/peacock/walrus species" or omitted? Putting "species" will result in a definition for "species" that's at least a dozen pages; putting "gambier etc. species" will result in lots of extra entries; omitting them means that all dictionary users will have to know that all animal, plant, and fungus names have the species as x2. My opinion is that it should be omitted except for higher taxa and sheep-eating tigers. Anyone who's been in Bertcad Mivdal knows that x2 of an animal is its species. phma -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.