From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Oct 16 10:24:15 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GZWBv-0005Il-VK for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:23:56 -0700 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GZWBt-0005Ie-1V for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:23:55 -0700 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so2684143nfa for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:23:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=RkWoOBWxoecswGWuFyJXTYI7KVhDuqAkbgH2XIe0mKZL5tfOxBD8TgjcnwprvxaDNnLSxOhDvDvwc0S2bpJ/7hFWJXO8e5/yl0ADZj9nKGYJLGXUapjzvT5jpIOpqwD3Fzk4eWPPo5zmcuByTtTNMB6qrcuyr5xa5xy8B86wGfQ= Received: by 10.82.105.13 with SMTP id d13mr1145333buc; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:23:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.160.13 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:23:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <12d58c160610161023t490a2cfeq6ed6b7b894a5c05c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:23:51 -0400 From: "komfo,amonan" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Medieval In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_30409_31257564.1161019431132" References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4ba28c3093d2e6e3 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-archive-position: 12725 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: komfoamonan@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------=_Part_30409_31257564.1161019431132 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/16/06, Yanis Batura wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pierre Abbat > To: lojban-list@lojban.org > Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:12:32 -0400 > Subject: [lojban] Re: Medieval > > > > > On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:40, Yanis Batura wrote: > > > What are your suggestions for saying "medieval" in Lojban? > > > > The literal translation is {mijycedra}, but there are a lot more eras > before > > the middle one than after it, so there has to be a better word. > > > > Checking the Wikipedia article, it looks like it's a European period, so > > {ronmijycedra} might work. > > Hmmm... I needed that word for talking about ninjas and samurais... :) According to Wikipedia's History of Japan article there is a period called the "Japanese Middle Ages". So perhaps {ponmijycedra}. ------=_Part_30409_31257564.1161019431132 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/16/06, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
To: lojban-list@lojban.org
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:12:32 -0400
Subject: [lojban] Re: Medieval

>
> On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:40, Yanis Batura wrote:
> > What are your suggestions for saying "medieval" in Lojban?
>
> The literal translation is {mijycedra}, but there are a lot more eras before
> the middle one than after it, so there has to be a better word.
>
> Checking the Wikipedia article, it looks like it's a European period, so
> {ronmijycedra} might work.

Hmmm... I needed that word for talking about ninjas and samurais... :)

According to Wikipedia's History of Japan article there is a period called the "Japanese Middle Ages". So perhaps {ponmijycedra}.


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