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On Saturday, April 18, 2015 16:31:15 iesk wrote:
> There are countries with several official names in several languages. The=
re
> are countries where the official name is in a language not used by the
> majority of the locals, and possibly doesn't mean a lot to them. And so o=
n.
>=20
> I don't think this can be algorithmically solved, or that there is a
> linguistically neutral solution that anybody would be happy with.

I looked up Bhutan, to make sure that that's the country {drukiulo} refers =
to,=20
and found out that it took over a century for Europeans to figure out which=
=20
country is called Bhutan. It'll take us a year or probably a few for us to=
=20
settle on the Lojban names of countries.

> Just for the fun of doing it, I made a little list where I kind of droppe=
d
> neutrality (as per impossibility of attaining it)=E2=80=94starting from a=
n
> existing, yet blatantly non-neutral approach at standardisation:
> Interlingua. Yes, totally un-Lojbanic. It's not a serious proposal. Anywa=
y:
> http://mw.lojban.org/papri/File:fuhivla-cou2.ods

I'm working on this and will send it back to you.

Pierre
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