Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Eg3H9-00040d-2F for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:51:47 -0800 Received: from dionysos.oderland.com ([213.115.211.26]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.54) id 1Eg3H6-00040V-AY for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:51:46 -0800 Received: from c-e790e255.1210-16-64736c14.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([85.226.144.231]) by dionysos.oderland.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1Eg3FD-0006RZ-BL for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:49:47 +0100 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Nick-cmevla From: Sunnan To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <925d17560511260830s10175b4fp78da3fc48a66a71e@mail.gmail.com> References: <2d3df92a0511260634p761d3f3an30d40ed23c71dd94@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560511260830s10175b4fp78da3fc48a66a71e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:51:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1133023876.6844.104.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - dionysos.oderland.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lojban.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - handgranat.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2687 X-Approved-By: sunnan@handgranat.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sunnan@handgranat.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 705 On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:30 -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote: > 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. -chan in japanese of course! > > 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}. Another way is "bridification" of the name, but maybe you'd need pe'a for that.