From graywyvern@hotmail.com Mon Oct 30 13:40:19 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: graywyvern@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 30 Oct 2000 21:40:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 25696 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2000 21:37:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Oct 2000 21:37:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO b05.egroups.com) (10.1.2.184) by mta2 with SMTP; 30 Oct 2000 21:37:57 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: graywyvern@hotmail.com Received: from [10.1.10.69] by b05.egroups.com with NNFMP; 30 Oct 2000 21:37:56 -0000 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:37:47 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: month names Message-ID: <8tkpnb+flt@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <8.c12f9bc.272f2838@aol.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 873 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 209.176.48.48 From: "michael helsem" --- In lojban@egroups.com, pycyn@a... wrote: > In a message dated 00-10-30 14:11:56 EST, maikl writes: > > << i would probably prefer some arbitrary 12 of the animals for the months >> > Why not take the (ok, abstractly arbitrary, but culturally fixed) zodiacal > animals from China. rat RATCU horse XIRMA ox (bovine BAKNI) goat KANBA tiger TIRXU monkey SMANI rabbit RACTU rooster (chicken JIPCI) dragon RAMRESPA dog GERKU snake SINCE bear CRIBE this is usable but (1) requires one lujvo; (2) RATCU & RACTU are too similar; (3) returning to my earlier thought, there really are only 12 color gismu in lojban, & apparently not just 12 of anything else, so as an exercise in matching it would be more instructive to use a list that is comprehensive. (1) & (2) could be met by choosing different gismu from the lojbanic bestiary.