From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Mar 22 01:04:16 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:04:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DDfJA-0000ce-I3 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:04:16 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DDfJA-0000cX-Fs for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:04:16 -0800 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:04:16 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban is not Vulcan or Borg Message-ID: <20050322090416.GH29806@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <200503182133.j2ILXvTd017432@mole.e-mol.com> <20050318214702.GR26000@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <423B563B.1050907@gulik.co.nz> <537d06d00503192224569e90fb@mail.gmail.com> <423E562B.7070505@gulik.co.nz> <20050321073703.GO29806@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <537d06d00503210230313ae52e@mail.gmail.com> <423F38EE.3030804@gulik.co.nz> <537d06d00503220004630e4c5f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <537d06d00503220004630e4c5f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1298 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 Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:04:01AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > But yes, camgusmis refers to Robin Lee Powell; it's formed from > the rafsi of carmi+gusni+misno (intense+bright+fame), which is a > translation of the name "Robin" into Lojban. I believe that Robin > doesn't like the various obvious Lojbanisations of his name such > as .robin. or .rabn. or the like and prefers .camgusmis., which is > why I use that name for him. (And I further believe that of the > "Robin"-based names, he dislikes .rabn. less since .robin. has > inappropriate vowel sounds for the way he pronounces his name in > English.) All of these things are true. -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/