From cowan Tue Jan 16 14:52:29 1996 Subject: Re: sera'aku SNU: ki'e doi skot. From: John Cowan To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:52:29 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199601161039.FAA25726@locke.ccil.org> from "Don Wiggins" at Jan 16, 96 10:12:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 479 Message-ID: la dn. cusku di'e > Describing a culture as a two-part lujvo. This seems an extraordinary idea. > Is it possible? For instance, how does one do Irish? The gismu list gives "sicko'o" = "Western-Scot". This is a bit odd synchronically, but historically has some validity: the "Scoti" were the Irish, who kept that name when they moved east, although more or less abandoning it in the homeland. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.