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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:06:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Lindar Greenwood <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Initial impression
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>I'll join this naming tangent!=0A>=0A>=0A>I chose the lojban name {ku'us} =
because ku'u is the rafsi for ckunu (conifer), and my legal american name O=
ren is Hebrew (=D7=90=D7=95=D7=A8=D7=9F) for pine tree. .ui=0A=0AThat's str=
ange! *{ku'u} is a modal of {kulnu}, so perhaps this is not the best choice=
 for a clear interpretation?=0APerhaps a better choice would just be *{la c=
kunu}. Either that, or you could be *{la selku'u} (Hi, my name is Pinecone!=
).=0A=0AHonestly, the *lojban thing* + s|n convention is getting stale, esp=
ecially since there are names that end up "meaning" (it doesn't actually me=
an anything in Lojban, but we get the idea, like for bancus or kribacr) som=
ething when there was no intent. My name is one such thing that ends up 'me=
aning' something because it's incidentally two rafsi (Hi, my name is 66 fee=
t.) smashed together. Honestly, I'd just assume that your name outside of L=
ojbanistan was something like "Kooce" or "Kuhuce" were I to see that name, =
whereas *{la ckunu} is rather Unambiguous=E2=84=A2.=0A=0A>.i ta'onai=0A>=0A=
>=0A>And I actually like the look of periods in front of attitudinals, beca=
use in my mind attitudinals are like punctuation marks. Well, except that b=
y definition they don't punctuate so much as freely add attitude anywhere, =
but in a sense they do replace certain 'punctuation marks,' for example whe=
n chatting, '!?!?!?' can sometimes be replaced with .o'onai=0A=0A<scruffy>S=
econd.</scruffy>=0A=0A=0A=0A