From mturniansky@gmail.com Wed Jan 06 08:14:04 2010 Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com ([209.85.160.47]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NSYWF-0005HN-P0 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:14:04 -0800 Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so4796855pwj.26 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:13:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Dvwb4HN0HdqRcMlLeS1c2imoaG+yIQWkTaiSsZUjKYo=; b=Sj3ZxJYrE+zcSZTEzqApwYEzkXIJWKDnDn/G8emi7frLkJYwoDIG7suFzXMQZN21MP 7hvihPPg9FQToJZgZ9Pf1u2iJMWEZu6kcddlf39KeCCGjttWGhtzns2ivVjw5ThdzwBn mA11YzJnfA/Gk+2dnXgbhBwhi+YRU3eIrnhLM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=UhHoPW7qqUVXo6/kZCnocrGHodie6LqpJaDHrFhYBER50HmB3ns0gryp900IZmLlsh sBacmJAo7YWqi7tEU095IPJxz7uVB8FLZGsGUG3q73V0VInz8DBwHh2tmViN9hN6943J JNGSogKOYclvM7gfl/t2xmhtUuf7QWv0q0cmo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.3.35 with SMTP id 35mr16541467wfc.205.1262794431479; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:13:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <27513e551001032238g2f1ff8c7r5973c018facdecc4@mail.gmail.com> References: <425e4ac21001031952t22834298oa24977c0eef72d35@mail.gmail.com> <175716.17467.qm@web50408.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <27513e551001032152p76aecf6fg281271b15e2959e6@mail.gmail.com> <972918.93077.qm@web50407.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <27513e551001032238g2f1ff8c7r5973c018facdecc4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:13:51 -0500 Message-ID: <96f789a61001060813p6e1a2eact65d1fd1b6f9c48b0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Initial impression From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00504502c10d834331047c813d65 --00504502c10d834331047c813d65 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Oren wrote: > > ...However, this sort of makes me want to think a bit harder before I > reform my own name. From lojban's rather extensive set of semantic radicals, > which one do I want to have associated with myself? Do I really identify > with pinecones? Yet another existential decision to make! > > mu'o mi'e mi > While I've never minded your "ku'us", I too wondered where it was from. Say, here's a plan: use a gismu + aribitrary consonant (like bancus does) to change your name to "ckunuj". That will keep your readers wondering if you are a confier, a book sandwich (Tanach + Talmud?), or simply a random collection of phonemes. (I considered using pseudo-lujvo cmevla when transliterating the names in Esther, (hence vactic -> the apropos "evening trickster" for Vashit), but gave it up as unworkable in general, and went for (subjective) euphony instead). --gejyspa --00504502c10d834331047c813d65 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Oren <get.oren@gmail.com= > wrote:

...However, this sort of makes me want = to think a bit harder before I reform my own name. From lojban's rather= extensive set of semantic radicals, which one do I want to have associated= with myself? Do I really identify with pinecones? Yet another existential = decision to make!

mu'o mi'e mi

=C2=A0 While I've never minded your "ku'= ;us", I too wondered where it was from.=C2=A0 Say, here's a plan: = use a gismu + aribitrary consonant (like bancus does) to change your name t= o "ckunuj".=C2=A0 That will keep your readers wondering if you ar= e a confier, a book sandwich (Tanach + Talmud?), or simply a random collect= ion of phonemes.=C2=A0 (I considered using pseudo-lujvo cmevla when transli= terating the names in Esther, (hence vactic -> the apropos "evening= trickster" for Vashit), but gave it up as unworkable in general, and = went for (subjective) euphony instead).

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