From cowan@ccil.org Mon Jul 16 18:50:48 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 17 Jul 2001 01:50:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 50220 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 01:50:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Jul 2001 01:50:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 01:50:47 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15MK1O-0006jl-00; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:51:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Taxonomy In-Reply-To: <01071620280503.02684@neofelis> from Pierre Abbat at "Jul 16, 2001 08:26:55 pm" To: phma@oltronics.net Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:51:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat scripsit: > But where do I hail a taxonomist? Especially one who's not an iron cladist? Somewhere where it's raining cats and dogs? (For non-anglophones: There is a child's riddle: What's worse than raining cats and dogs [idiom for "very heavily"]? Hailing taxis! where "hail" would usually mean "yelling or whistling to attract a taxi driver's attention" but is here to be taken as the meteorological event.) -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter