Subject: Re: [lojban] French word for "Lojban"

From: Steven Belknap <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 16:28:38 -0500

Le mot pour "language" est langue en Français. L'article pour langue 
est "la", non? Pourqoi est "lojban" la feminine?

>Elrond wrote:
>
>  > I am french and thus french-speaker, and I need some crucial
>  > information on this particular point: what is the gender of the word
>  > "Lojban" in french ?
>
>The demi-official Lojban brochure at
>http://www.lojban.org/files/brochures/brochure.french
>uses the masculine gender.
>
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Steven Belknap, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria