From rspeer@MIT.EDU Tue Mar 04 18:44:04 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:44:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from fort-point-station.mit.edu ([18.7.7.76]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18qOsw-0008Ac-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:43:58 -0800 Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by fort-point-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA04350 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:43:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA03395 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:43:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from random-three-ninety-six.mit.edu (RANDOM-THREE-NINETY-SIX.MIT.EDU [18.243.6.141]) ) by melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h252hsxZ015351 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:43:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from rob by random-three-ninety-six.mit.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18qOsn-000122-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 21:43:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:43:49 -0500 From: Rob Speer To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Honorifics Message-ID: <20030305024349.GB3190@mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-archive-position: 4342 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rspeer@MIT.EDU Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list (I replied accidentally off-list, as usual, and xod responded. I'm forwarding that now.) ----- Forwarded message from Invent Yourself ----- I like the orthogonality of it. I don't want to mutilate the name. We only have fewer than a dozen honorifics in English. On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Rob Speer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:38:37PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > > Experimental gadri can be used for honorifics. > > Oh fun. > > la'u'a the professor named... > la'e'a'u the President named... > la'a'i'ei the Grand Inquisitor named... > la'u'i'u'a'a the witch doctor named... > > No thanks, I'll be sticking with the gism/CVC tactic. > -- What would Jesus bomb? ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Rob Speer