From ragnarok@pobox.com Mon Jun 17 08:01:06 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 17 Jun 2002 15:01:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 542 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2002 15:01:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 17 Jun 2002 15:01:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Jun 2002 15:01:05 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.182] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A9B94D840084; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:01:13 -0400 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: le liste be ro gugde Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:41:07 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <02061710544212.02401@neofelis> Importance: Normal X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" Reply-To: X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 14416 >Generally, they should be cmene, whether rafygug or kantrineim. The gismu >{brito} means "British", not "Britain", though Britain is of course British, >so people sometimes use gismu as country names. Some gismu I forgot (e.g. >jerxo). but Britain is a "lo brito", and in context is the obvious one here. When Lojban has a word for something, why use a name? The name in itself is meaningless, even if it is a rafygug. The gismu itself carries the meaning you want.