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Re: Animal {gismu}



la lojbab. cusku di'e

> I'm not sure I see scorpion as civla, since i have always thought of
> them as bloodsucking.  I can extend them to include aphids, which
> 'bloodsuck' plants, at least to a lay person, and similar plant parasites.
> But I think of scorpiomns as more like either spiders or bees.  They sting,
> not suck.  (if my biology is wrong, it probably is no worse than the
> average lay Lojbanist).

Yes, I think scorpions are spiders for our purposes.

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