X-Digest-Num: 38 Message-ID: <44114.38.129.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 19:31:51 +0000 From: Colin Fine Subject: Re: First stab X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 129 Content-Length: 1906 Lines: 47 vecu'u le notci po'u <3693A90C.B9FB07BE@bcc.bilkent.edu.tr> la Robin Turner cu cusku di'e >From: Robin Turner > >John Cowan wrote: > >> >> > .i croatian. ve jbena >> >> "Croatia is my birthplace." You left off "la" before "croatian." > >It would probably be worth creating a fu'ivla for "Croatia". I don't know >how "Croatia" is pronounced in Croatian, but using the English >pronunciation, you would get something like "gugdrkro'eyca", which like most >fu'ivla, I find pretty unpronouncable! Perhaps someone with the required >arcane knowledge could come up with a stage 4 fu'ivla. Indeed. 'croatian' is a perfectly good Lojban name, as far as I know, but would be pronounced approximately 'shro-ah-tea-an' - probably not what was wanted. > >By the way, I've been wondering if the word "cravatte" (tie) and its >equivalent in other languages comes from "Croat", since apparently it was >brought to England by an English soldier who saw Croatian irregulars wearing >it. > >co'o mi'e robin. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription >to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and >select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Colin Fine 66 High Ash, Shipley, W Yorks. BD18 1NE, UK | | Tel: 01274 592696/0976 635354 e-mail: colin@kindness.demon.co.uk | | "Don't just do something! Stand there!" | | - from 'Behold the Spirit' (workshop) | -----------------------------------------------------------------------