Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E7UMs-0004fK-PW for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:50 -0700 Received: from mailgw5.gedas.de ([139.1.44.13]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1E7UMo-0004f7-9X for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:50 -0700 Received: from mailgw5.gedas.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailgw5.gedas.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7N8gjlI005261 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:42:45 +0200 Received: from GDDEBESAPP004.de.gedas-grp (gddebesapp004.de.gedas-grp [10.242.64.42]) by mailgw5.gedas.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7N8gjDD005255 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:42:45 +0200 Received: from blnsem08.de.gedas-grp ([139.1.84.54]) by GDDEBESAPP004.de.gedas-grp with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:42:45 +0200 Received: by blnsem08.de.gedas-grp with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:42:44 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Newton, Philip" To: "'lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org'" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Hungary?? Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:42:42 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Aug 2005 08:42:45.0365 (UTC) FILETIME=[A202E250:01C5A7BE] X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1833 X-Approved-By: Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de 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: Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 462 la xorxes cu cusku di'e > cultural gismu all end in "o" I noticed this, too -- but is this a rule, a tradition, or merely coincidence? Do new cultural gismu also have to end in "o", or could they have a different vowel if the original word lends itself to that? For example, could there be a cultural gismu {malta} related to Malta? (Or {malti}, which is Maltese for the adjective "Maltese"?) Or would it have to be {malto}, if anything? mu'o mi'e .filip.