From lojban+bncCN7E3I7kBxCRlr3wBBoE_b9Rgg@googlegroups.com Sat Jul 02 09:45:20 2011 Received: from mail-qw0-f61.google.com ([209.85.216.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qd3Jk-00067F-EN; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:45:19 -0700 Received: by qwh5 with SMTP id 5sf4775123qwh.16 for ; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:45:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-google-group-id :list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MN9y5K986NBYGLPrB+tI1nzMq1R6FUyFSuEAv/AT5VI=; b=hEtL3l4VURjuCNyBHuFvy+/76XpMId+q2wTNHCeuq2YmkAt39a/Exodxq+IujwvEpw bMmR+1u6I03kqT3+Kz+OLJ7twJbSI4RdJaOLo4xmTTjqeWErEdzjGYzwrA1LVrBhnA+D qpsqFXbe+IRDJ2P9hXLw3vrWpuHrsuX5zk2MQ= Received: by 10.224.197.71 with SMTP id ej7mr511482qab.25.1309625105668; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:45:05 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.224.42.129 with SMTP id s1ls1776qae.6.gmail; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.194.5 with SMTP id dw5mr4891181qab.5.1309625105215; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.96.6 with SMTP id f6msqan; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:19:54 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.209.135 with SMTP id gg7mr467210qab.15.1309623594744; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by v12g2000vby.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:19:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <6e165bbb-5606-4715-a46b-ac655ab89dd3@e21g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <699c411b-8021-4e8e-8860-8fc6d51eed5a@v12g2000vby.googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: Guessing the name of my country From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1lvaro_Vallejo?= To: lojban X-Original-Sender: avallejor@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable coi rodo I though I would get replies in my email but I had not configured this Google service to do so. That's why I did not thank you before... THANK YOU very much for your replies. I learned a lot on Lojban logics for doing lujvos from your comments. I thought I could describe Colombia as the "most Northern" country because 1. it is the one with the highest Northern latitude in South America and 2. it is the one immediately before Central America (and America is sort of a line of countries)... but it is clear this did not work at all. Very good guess from Craig, thank you and you are right, Alan. .u'i .i funny description of U.S. from Jonathan but I'm not sure how much time this description will fit... Coming back to the issue of finding a Lojbanic name for my country: it is really difficult to find a neutral, non-biased characteristic, since it is a mix of five contrasting regions (Pacific, Caribbean, Andean, Amazonian and Eastern flat-lands). Probably we are well know because of coffee and another addictive substance, but I wouldn't like at all use these for naming my country... beyond that, I can't find any description that fits us... so... the best option seems to be using a cneme ... la kolombias, maybe?? but then... how to express the nationality? mu'o mi'e la .ALbaros On Jul 2, 6:48=A0am, tijlan wrote: > =A0 berketygu'e > > Given that > 1) this lujvo doesn't specify whether the referent is to be single or > multiple and > 2) multiple countries can be described as "berti zei ketco", > my guess would be that it means whatever South-American countries that > are northern. > > mu'o mi'e tijlan --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegrou= ps.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban= ?hl=3Den.