From phma@oltronics.net Wed Nov 01 15:40:15 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@oltronics.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 1 Nov 2000 23:40:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 7450 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2000 23:40:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Nov 2000 23:40:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Nov 2000 23:40:13 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA01062 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:40:10 -0500 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.20, neofelis, , 207.15.133.20 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 18:40:10(EST) on November 01, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Re: month names Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:33:11 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <97315033101@out.newmail.net> In-Reply-To: <97315033101@out.newmail.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0011011840090R.00904@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat >We could still use the western zodiac signs. It doesn't have to be >animals. The western zodiac signs are already pretty well fixed to >the months. The biggest problem is distinguishing between crabs >and scorpions in lojban. > >July la jukma'i "jukni" by itself is "spider", not "crab". Crabs aren't arachnids; the division into insects and non-insect arthropods doesn't make sense taxonomically. >November la jukrskorpio masti rebjukma'i? not sure how to say "sting" Also, the signs don't coincide with the months. phma