Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:02:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nm6CF-0003hU-Ic for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:02:07 -0800 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.122]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nm6C8-0003aX-E5 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:02:06 -0800 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=sAuKPPGNozYA:10 a=ru84qN7T4wNd7WjkAvkA:9 a=AUi2ebac1OhJLHYAgwjn0QnijRkA:4 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 71.71.198.100 Received: from [71.71.198.100] ([71.71.198.100:60444] helo=chausie) by cdptpa-oedge01.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.39 r()) with ESMTP id 91/40-14652-1D8CB8B4; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:01:54 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641B262EB for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:01:53 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: translation of "blog" si blag Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:01:50 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <9DE5DB0988ED6C448E606734F5030D3822C1B467@bbcmbmx01.blackpool.gov.uk> <4de8c3931003010538y6bef970dv31f605543c678d39@mail.gmail.com> <474705.27306.qm@web88008.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <474705.27306.qm@web88008.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201003010901.51431.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 2933 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 592 On Monday 01 March 2010 08:46:02 A. PIEKARSKI wrote: > These arguements about American English versus Commonwealth English > seem a little strange to me.  Have we forgotten that lojban is not the > preserve of the English-speaking world?  How is "blog" pronounced in China, > India, Brazil, Nigeria?  {prekarni} sounds fine to me! In Spanish it's also called "bitácora", which originally meant "binnacle" (both words are from French "habitacle"), which is a cabinet in a ship containing, among other things, the log. Pierre -- lo ponse be lo mruli po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko