From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Apr 28 07:04:26 2011 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list jbovlaste); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QFRpS-0004KZ-5v for jbovlaste-real@lojban.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:04:26 -0700 Received: from nm13-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([66.94.236.13]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QFRpN-0004KQ-RW for jbovlaste@lojban.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:04:26 -0700 Received: from [66.94.237.126] by nm13.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Apr 2011 14:04:15 -0000 Received: from [66.94.237.97] by tm1.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Apr 2011 14:04:15 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1002.access.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Apr 2011 14:04:15 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 663703.37283.bm@omp1002.access.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 11506 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Apr 2011 14:04:15 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rogers.com; s=s1024; t=1303999455; bh=f4l0b8S+TzrgcPAcHAamn3pGQE7sbBpUfAVc8V12cAk=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Q7z+mJ7MZ5T7lDMFLJm4e497Q3mFSPn1IEIZldv6pjmdjB6BZTAdDxx15XPo6ADUxXO2JhlENaDb62OlSLacL0QHjn+lJM9wlrJCFTwSXe4V2iMbxz29McD0fvL9HLurekHLHDztWejy0J1gQUSF4xpzVxc3m4wZz05C4+2RApQ= DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=rFS1a0gYd/02sPzsHiC0ma/BMVPsxtxDMWjBWGXQLsOWoNk03zq2ghRj/2wrKXMdtMFI5Son3kIj9fKUA9ZwIlKWUgsIG/owY3ecoe56QrNDErR8od+kEc0aDQcYteEZhhgfpqRaH3TllrGxibSshZs6omAjz/Ju8CGnuUdqrTs=; Message-ID: <62188.7337.qm@web88006.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: wpS9TwkVM1m7Azuu6Ncnv7DTSC1hOLZac.QapaHxscyJb3K ORVI24yCzFZkoJ2YDkXunxmNvWEHcIPnb0tKPk8xuHSttmjTF75MO7LWjSvG aohBjK9xPxwQljkboh08qEGFh2CEcuPTVtBLGBT9LfIaJh8.hzqENkSy3XWS VGsajhMItRzvMzZjK5qEyMP6xcz6Zhpbhk58clDCSvHc8KqjXQsFLxRvcVdO DhzrDtIIq6JxuRvfAwTBMy8MsBiJyz9VWJnfaofcSe4_Q0ytcnkXkn4FsDrI U6i5rl8UuxIXBNFlGeeagMV3sTNKbe55QgyruhfVQS88wRZcpCLQylyEVZqz Ryh4zx5vGN3EAfiiRpz6eW6g_Adi5cidgHhbUcn583WhGLH_JM8VIZFuF0Qb a_OaHibbFTmjZrh0- Received: from [99.240.58.72] by web88006.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:04:15 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/559 YahooMailWebService/0.8.110.299900 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:04:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "A. PIEKARSKI" Subject: [jbovlaste] Military ranks To: jbovlaste@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 13 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: totus@rogers.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: jbovlaste@lojban.org X-list: jbovlaste coi I've been thinking about how one might translate military ranks into lojban. There are many of them, and I don't think lujvo are the way to go.  Imagine coming up with lujvo for: Major General, Lieutenant Colonel, 2nd Lieutenant etc etc etc. One approach, may be to fu'ivla based on rank codes that NATO uses in order establish equivalency between the ranks of its different members (the UIN has nothing like this). Example: OF-10 = General of the Army (US) = Field Marshal (UK). OF-2   = Captain (Canada) = Shang Wei (China) For a full list, see  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_officer_ranks So, my questrion is: Can we use lerfu strings to create fu'ivla? Examples: OF-10: jatnrobufypano OF-2: jatnrobufyre mu'o mi'e .totus.