From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jan 05 17:18:48 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:18:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JBKA3-00026S-US for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:18:48 -0800 Received: from web88001.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.188]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JBK9y-00026C-95 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:18:47 -0800 Received: (qmail 76432 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Jan 2008 01:18:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=jOyKkSqQXOsliGEhbV4jqjtQCt9gAD3Tug6WftwUJ/YnVMmEpM3ZAtSIH+dvqTlOcaIRt98Ss638vWE38OYGUpKMyw+4MA7PVXoAuPD8r2tB4qMfGdJygGKC0LmyMN9E2GwxRX8bQVIhxeNj+yrrIZJJLHfK4MY9flJEzQnqkRc=; X-YMail-OSG: TNme08QVM1mQqKHljMTuqY2IOnMmJCpw9Yb1o69JuHGBwkD.JDoxhdkpVjf.Mct_jeMt6wV8EKbBCkkgQliK4DVocC43nmrik1rEEEa9DwgRHfs2Cs.0 Received: from [99.229.12.248] by web88001.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:18:35 PST Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 17:18:35 -0800 (PST) From: "A. PIEKARSKI" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: towns and countries To: lojban-beginners@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 Message-ID: <875264.71347.qm@web88001.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 169 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: totus@rogers.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jorge Llambías > To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 4:35:29 PM > Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: towns and countries > > On Jan 5, 2008 6:17 PM, A. PIEKARSKI wrote: > > > > Which brings up the problem, once again, of India which is {xingu'e} in > jbovlaste (I'm only mentioning it again as someone new may bring some > enlightenment). This name is based on the gismu for Hindi (the language of much > of northern India and one of the two - along with English - official languages. > Most people in southern India, who do not speak Hindi, would probably object to > this identification. > > The wikipedia article > has {la barat}, (although it should say {zo barat} in its first use). > Same problem. I believe {la barat} is based on the Hindi 'Bharat'. The Indian constitution refers to both Bharat and India. The old colonial name 'India' is there precisely because the southern Indian states objected to the Hindi-only name. mu'o mi'e andrus