From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Jul 14 08:24:29 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 14 Jul 2001 15:24:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 21534 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2001 15:24:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Jul 2001 15:24:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-2.cais.net) (205.252.14.72) by mta2 with SMTP; 14 Jul 2001 15:24:25 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (dynamic236.cl8.cais.net [205.177.20.236]) by stmpy-2.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6EFONF71495 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:24:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010714112345.05411f00@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:28:30 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Taxonomy In-Reply-To: <01071404430708.01127@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 04:41 AM 07/14/2001 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: >I have noticed a cladistic bias in the terms used for taxonomy. I am not a >cladist, and even cladists have to talk to non-cladists sometimes, so I feel >there should be words for kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and >species. Any suggestions? Already thought of that and built it into the language. Starting from the end of your list, the words are jutsi, seljutsi, terjutsi, veljutsi, xemjutsi, and then perhaps (because it has never come up before) selxavjutsi, selzeljutsi lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org