From phma@oltronics.net Sat Jul 14 16:44:24 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 14 Jul 2001 23:44:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 43483 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2001 23:44:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Jul 2001 23:44:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.108) by mta2 with SMTP; 14 Jul 2001 23:44:20 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 98A103C5F5; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 18:37:46 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Where is Lojbangug? Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 18:11:14 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0107141837460C.01127@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat I'm trying to figure out where Lojbangug is from the vocabulary. Apples, bananas, citrus, pears, melons, berries, and tomatoes grow there; the trees include oak and conifers, but no maples, poplars, catalpas, aspens, etc. There is a nut, presumably the acorn. Also the cabbage and at least two kinds of allium are known, and some kind of potato. Elephants exist, so it must be in Africa or Asia. There are mice and rats, pigs, horses, camels, and donkeys, cows, deer, and sheep. There are at least three kinds of felids and at least three kinds of canids, but apparently no hyenas, mustelids, viverrids, or herpestids, though there are bears. The only birds are the duck, goose, chicken, and turkey; one would expect that there would be some passerines, as they are by far the most speciose order of birds. I don't get a clear picture of where this country is. It doesn't seem to be in the Americas, but I'd expect a lot of unfamiliar vegetation if it were in Africa or Asia, and there's only the lotus. So where is this place? phma