From Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de Mon Feb 03 02:33:30 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 03 Feb 2003 02:33:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgw1.gedas.de ([139.1.44.12] helo=spree.gedas.de) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18fdug-0006Qx-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 02:33:19 -0800 Received: from spree.gedas.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spree.gedas.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28440 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:33:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from blnsem05.de.gedas.vwg (blnsem05.gedas.de [139.1.84.49]) by spree.gedas.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28436 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:33:13 +0100 (MET) Received: by blnsem05.de.gedas.vwg with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:32:59 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Newton, Philip" To: "'lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org'" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Robin's Tagline Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:33:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-archive-position: 47 X-Approved-By: Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de 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: Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners coi .ian do cusku di'e > .i ki'a lu cridrnoma li'u > .i xu lu cridrnoma li'u fu'ivla .i go'i .i zo cridrnoma cu fu'ivla fi le glibau zoi gy. gnome .gy. (My attempt to say "Yes -- 'cridrnoma' is a fu'ivla copied from the English word 'gnome'.") (Question: Are both of {.i xu lu cridrnoma li'u fu'ivla} and {.i xu zo cridrnoma fu'ivla} equally acceptable?) > co'o mi'e .ian No need to say goodbye quite so soon! :) > But when it is meant to emulate the iMac commercials It's not :) http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1192835 is one explanation of where it came from, IIRC. > Is "cridrnoma" a loan-word (about something related to fairies)? Yes. Recognisable, with a bit of experience, by the presence of a gism (my word for a four-letter gismu root) + -r- "glue": crid-r-noma. Specifically, it's a Type III fu'ivla. mu'omi'e filip. -- filip.niutyn. All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.