From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Wed Sep 29 13:53:40 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 29 Sep 1993 08:00:40 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 29 Sep 1993 08:00:36 -0400 Message-Id: <199309291200.AA01374@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4275; Wed, 29 Sep 93 07:57:23 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 6203; Wed, 29 Sep 93 07:59:59 EDT Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 12:53:40 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: use "lojbau" not "lojban" X-To: lojban@cuvma.BITNET To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: It would be preferable when speaking in lojban of lojban to use "le/lo lojbau/lobybau/lohorbau/lojbangu/lobybangu/lohorbangu/etc." rather than "la lojban". "la lojban" could be referring to anything that the speaker chooses to call "lojban", whereas "lojbau" is unambiguous. I reckon it's probably a mistaken malglico holdover - in English the 'names' of languages look like proper nouns (even though they are probably actually common nouns, contrary to superficial appearances). --------------- And