From phma@oltronics.net Thu Mar 15 12:49:22 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 15 Mar 2001 20:49:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 76120 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2001 20:49:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Mar 2001 20:49:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.18) by mta2 with SMTP; 15 Mar 2001 20:49:16 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id CA9003C57A; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:31:20 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Names of birds Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:15:14 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0103151531200Q.05701@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Has anyone come up with a list of bird names in Lojban? In gismu we have datka, gunse, jipci, and xruki, which covers only two of the orders of birds. I came up with skaxruki for peacock and pitcutcipni for ratite, but it seems un-Zipfian that a bird I have never seen can get the short type4 name trogoni, whereas one I see every day I go out has to make do with cipnrkolumba. And what's the word for penguin? Antarctica is named "dzipo" for cadzu cipni, but these birds live as far north as the Galapagos. Speaking of trogons, I recently found out that NPR's spasnu is not named for one: her name is spelled "Ketzel". phma