From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jan 07 10:19:56 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:19:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JBwZo-0001kC-6t for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:19:56 -0800 Received: from sparkle.rodents.montreal.qc.ca ([216.46.5.7] ident=bLIsnpKgTRsluEJsqGPPWDtxfXvICPh6A5QOGwMj0W2) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JBwZf-0001jl-7o for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:19:56 -0800 Received: (from mouse@localhost) by Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25784; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:19:39 -0500 (EST) From: der Mouse Message-Id: <200801071819.NAA25784@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Erik-Conspiracy: There is no Conspiracy - and if there were I wouldn't be part of it anyway. X-Message-Flag: Microsoft: the company who gave us the botnet zombies. Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:06:49 -0500 (EST) To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: towns and countries In-Reply-To: References: X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 177 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners [Would it be too much to ask that you not use paragraph-length lines?] > But what do we do with names which are partly translatable e.g. Great > Britain, South Korea, Belarus (White Russia), not to mention the USA? > [...] However, what about the others? {la banli briten} or {la > greitbriten}? There's prior art in the form of names used in other languages. Great Britain, for example, is Grande-Bretagne (or close) in French; United Kingdom becomes Royaume-Uni. So I would not hesitate to call it something like {balritgug} or {jorne nolraitrugug}. Of course, this doesn't help in all cases.... /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B