From jjllambias@hotmail.com Tue Jun 13 13:21:30 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30184 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2000 20:20:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 13 Jun 2000 20:20:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.240.150) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2000 20:20:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 99647 invoked by uid 0); 13 Jun 2000 20:20:17 -0000 Message-ID: <20000613202017.99646.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.49.74.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:20:17 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.49.74.2] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: lujvo Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:20:17 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 3043 >But why use a lujvo/tanru anyway? Why not a cmene? It is the name >of one particular character, isn't it? I don't see a problem with either. We use lots of different names and descriptions in other languages, Mary, Holy Mary, Virgin Mary, Holy Mother of God, Our Lady of Mercy, Mystic Rose, and so many others, there's no reason to restrain ourselves in Lojban. I also don't see what could be offensive about {lo mamta be lo cevni} = "a mother of a god" and similar expressions, but then people do tend to be touchy about godly matters. Whether one believes the expression could truly apply to something in the world is a different question from whether the expression makes sense. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com