From phma@webjockey.net Tue Apr 08 06:07:05 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_5); 8 Apr 2003 13:07:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 61796 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2003 13:06:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 8 Apr 2003 13:06:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Apr 2003 13:06:57 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 192soT-0006tW-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:06:57 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 192soG-0006t9-00; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:06:44 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 192so4-0006sk-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:06:32 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C40242D2E; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:06:00 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: samcu Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:05:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030407142014.03402c20@pop.east.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030407142014.03402c20@pop.east.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304080906.00355.phma@webjockey.net> X-archive-position: 4740 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 Monday 07 April 2003 14:22, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > Probably any/all of them. In a context where you are talking about pretty > flowers, it might be the poinsettia; if you are going to eat it, it might > be a yam. > > Good place for some disambiguating lujvo. gismu are supposed to have as > generalized a meaning as possible, so as to enable such use in lujvo. More likely fu'ivla, since we have no gismu for arum or spurge, and "arum-samcu" could as easily be konjaku as taro.