Subject: Re: Robin on cmene

From: "michael helsem" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:21:59 -0000

--- In [email-masked], pycyn@a... wrote:
> la robin. cusku 
> <<The discussion of standardisation also has a bearing on the 
concept of a
> cmene itself, I think. The whole point of a cmene, as I see it, is 
that
> it is an arbitrary label, and thus can be anything you like, so
long 
as
> it conforms to the rules of Lojban morphology (zo'o not that mine 
always
> do). To talk of a standard form for cmene seems contradictory. 

Didn't the Japanese turn 'Li Po' into "Rihaku"?
It really only matters that we be consistent.