From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 19 21:41:30 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MdzSs-0007Fb-6W for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:41:30 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MdzSm-0007Di-2v for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:41:30 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090820044116209.CMIF16591@cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com> for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:41:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23A45812 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:41:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Referring to selma'o in Lojban Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:41:09 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908200041.11366.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 2044 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wednesday 19 August 2009 20:15:51 Joshua Choi wrote: > The selma'o seem to have non-Lojbanic names like "BAhE". How does one > refer to a selma'o in Lojban, short of quoting? I just say "zo ba'e" (mu'a zo za'e cmavo zo ba'e). The weird capitalization is an artifact of writing the grammar in a computer language. For rafsi, though, I quote them with "zoi ry. ... .ry". zo poi nerbrima'o .i zoi ry. poi .ry. rafsi zo porsi .i zo poi na du zoi ry. poi .ry. mu'omi'e pier.