From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Feb 09 14:03:34 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:03:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Cyzvq-0005sz-Th for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:03:34 -0800 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:03:34 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dialects Message-ID: <20050209220334.GP32424@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <12d58c16050209065714783b4c@mail.gmail.com> <20050209205934.GO32424@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <12d58c160502091356a96aa2a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <12d58c160502091356a96aa2a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1129 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:56:16PM -0500, Adam COOPER wrote: > ki'e do This leads to my other question, which is how to translate > "dialects", as in "The dialects of Catalan include Majorcan and > Valencian". I was going to try to devise a lujvo or tanru that > included this concept of mutual intelligibility, which is to the > point. But that seems too unwieldy and I wonder whether a less > rigorous lujvo such as {mlicnebau} would be the way to go. What you want is klesi. la .madjorkan. .e la .valensian. .e lo drata vu'o poi bangu cu klesi la .katalan. poi bangu If you wanted to be extra specific, you could add "vau lo ka sumxi jimpe" or something on the end. > I have written a brief essay (1100 words) on the history of > English and am translating it into Lojban; that's what's driving > these questions. Coolness. Perhaps you could put it on the Lojban Wikipedia? http://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralju_papri -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/