Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu (uga.cc.uga.edu [128.192.1.5]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA01519 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 08:32:17 -0400 Message-Id: <199509041232.IAA01519@locke.ccil.org> Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 0242; Mon, 04 Sep 95 08:20:34 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5969; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 08:20:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 13:20:41 BST Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: Re: Names X-To: lojban@cuvmb.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Mon Sep 4 08:32:18 1995 X-From-Space-Address: <@uga.cc.uga.edu:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> >>> mi veion zeime'e >> do veion zeiku >> do veion zeivau >> do veion zeizei > mi veion zeidu There seems appear to be many ways of saying 'I am X.', but I really want to know to say 'I am X Y.' where X is my given name and Y is my family name. mi'e dn. .uygnz. (I am Don Wiggins) How can you interpret this as I intend? If I go for mi'e dn. lanzu zei .uygnz. it's not really my name any more having three explanatory syllables in the middle. Is it possible to prepend or append a phrase as explanation to indicate the meaning of the parts of the name? co'o mi'e dn. uygnz.