From lojban-out@lojban.org Wed Feb 26 14:35:09 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 22:35:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 33651 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2003 22:35:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Feb 2003 22:35:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2003 22:35:09 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18oA8r-0003Z1-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:35:09 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18oA8l-0003Yd-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:35:03 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:35:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18oA8d-0003YO-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:34:55 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:34:55 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: species in jbovlaste Message-ID: <20030226223455.GB17377@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200302262203.06372.phma@webjockey.net> <20030226215155.GV17377@digitalkingdom.org> <200302262332.22949.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302262332.22949.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-archive-position: 4170 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:32:22PM +0100, Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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. You mean what should the gloss word for the x2 place be, right? > 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. I'm inclined to agree, even though I don't know what Bertcad Midval is. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi