From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 08 19:24:22 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:24:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gi0WJ-0001hK-PA for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:24:03 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gi0WJ-0001hD-Ea for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:24:03 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:24:03 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "la" in names Message-ID: <20061109032403.GD23121@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20061108232125.GV32108@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 12962 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:36:16PM -0500, Robert McIvor wrote: > I might note that Loglan removed the restriction on names > beginning with La, or any other letter group that could precede a > bare name (e.g. Hoi (which precedes a vocative) ci (hyphen, for > reasons which follow)) by introducing the following rules. > > Such a name used as as a vocative must be preceded by 'hoi' , or > 'la' when used in an argument. By "such a name" I'm assuming you mean a name with 'hoi' or 'la' in it. That doesn't help, because the whole problem has been that *people don't notice*. People use names with "la" all the time without noticing that they are special. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ 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.