From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Oct 16 16:44:54 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GZc8J-0003U9-KH for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:44:35 -0700 Received: from eastrmmtao05.cox.net ([68.230.240.34]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GZc8D-0003Tu-JJ for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:44:35 -0700 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20061016234428.MAMM7951.eastrmmtao05.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:44:28 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([72.192.234.183]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id bBk51V00x3y5FKc0000000 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:44:07 -0400 Message-ID: <45341958.4060907@lojban.org> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:44:24 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Medieval References: <12d58c160610161023t490a2cfeq6ed6b7b894a5c05c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <12d58c160610161023t490a2cfeq6ed6b7b894a5c05c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 12729 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list komfo,amonan wrote: > On 10/16/06, *Yanis Batura* > > wrote: > > > Checking the Wikipedia article, it looks like it's a European > period, so > > {ronmijycedra} might work. > > Hmmm... I needed that word for talking about ninjas and samurais... :) > > > According to Wikipedia's History of Japan article there is a period > called the "Japanese Middle Ages". So perhaps {ponmijycedra}. Rather than copying the metaphor used in other languages, I think the common feature of the "middle ages" of both cultures was feudalism (and indeed, the boundaries of the era tend to be associated with the beginning and end of a feudal nobility (Yanis may have an opinion on this, since in Russia the feudal nobility essentially persisted up until the 20th century). So come up with a lujvo for feudalism or feudal nobility, and the "middle ages" is the feudal-era. And that works in Japan as well as Europe. lojbab To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.