From lojbab@lojban.org Mon Jul 16 21:04:54 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 17 Jul 2001 04:04:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 37785 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 04:04:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 17 Jul 2001 04:04:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-2.cais.net) (205.252.14.72) by mta1 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 04:04:54 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (47.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.47]) by stmpy-2.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6H44qF90951 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:04:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010717000615.00c20130@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:08:59 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Taxonomy In-Reply-To: <01071620003702.02684@neofelis> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010714112345.05411f00@127.0.0.1> <4.3.2.7.2.20010714112345.05411f00@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 07:57 PM 07/16/2001 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: >On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > >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 > >But it says: "places do not correspond to specific levels in the hierarchy". >Also, there are suborders, infraorders, subgenera, subphyla, etc. That is precisely why places do not correspond to specific levels in the hierarchy. There is no specific meaning of "order" that identifies how many levels down or up it is within the tree. But when you talk about a specific Order, using a particular classification system, then you do know where it stands within the tree - whether there is a subphylum above it for example. 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