Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:30:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Eg2wW-0003q3-2Y for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:30:28 -0800 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.203]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Eg2wS-0003pu-Cn for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:30:27 -0800 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i24so1458320wra for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:30:21 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=O2CrRWAO98MCJOIQbNOMvG4ozQ2G5Fg8561nqN5Omqeu/AZG4KRgLCe1AepJWvVk0rxp9dTvahXOuRm5hcEhkJjMHcwXsPfZTf6CvuRwBGO0K/iVSxSCYuXxtw/acn7sQm/HWfJblwG8aKbvdCd4bVWe16D7jlTUbgnPayA8N+0= Received: by 10.54.93.3 with SMTP id q3mr6444532wrb; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:30:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.126.5 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:30:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <925d17560511260830s10175b4fp78da3fc48a66a71e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:30:21 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Nick-cmevla In-Reply-To: <2d3df92a0511260634p761d3f3an30d40ed23c71dd94@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <2d3df92a0511260634p761d3f3an30d40ed23c71dd94@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2686 X-Approved-By: jjllambias@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 527 On 11/26/05, HeliodoR wrote: > > Popular formatives are -i, -y, -ka or -d, depending on the language. -chjo (male) and -njo (female) in Esperanto. -ito/-ita are common in Spanish. -inho/inha in Portuguese. > I'm curious about the Lojbanic convention to do the same. There is no convention yet. Shortening is always a possibility, for example I sometimes call la camgusmis {camgus}. Maybe you can add -dib (from {dirba}) for an affectionate nickname: {do jinvi ma doi darvesydib}. mu'o mi'e xorxes