Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BxaCx-0002Vo-Ut for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:51:08 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:51:07 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Anyone there? Message-ID: <20040818235107.GE13226@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20040818231250.GA13226@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <000501c4857d$92d75bd0$e604883e@crh37> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000501c4857d$92d75bd0$e604883e@crh37> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 696 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 950 On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:46:24AM +0100, Chris Howlett wrote: > > > (Incidentally, I'm not overly keen on the Lojbanisation of my name > > > either, but without any short i vowel, there's not much I can do) > > > > Heh. I translated my name. > > Let's see... cam is from carmi - "bright, intense"; gus from gusni - > "illuminate; is light (radiation)"; mis from misno - "famous". So > camgusmis - bright-light celebrity? I'm intrigued... I assume it's a > translation of your surname - do you mind me asking what it is? Nope, it's a translation of Robin. My surname is Powell. Google for "Robin name meaning" gives: http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/r/bl_name-ROBIN.htm http://www.babynames.com/V5/index.php?content=gosearch&searchterm=ROBIN&searchby=byname and other. It means "bright fame". -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"