Subject: Re: {lee}, {lohi}
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From: cowan
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 16:19:59 -0500 (EST)
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la .and. cusku di'e

> I am right, aren't I, that the official line on cmene is that they are
> potentially nonce, ad hoc labels, and do not come with any promise that
> they are to be found in any standard onomasticon?

That is correct.  "la fzzzzg." can be read as "le se cmene be zo fzzzzg bei mi"
and analogously for "doi fzzzzg.".  As a result, all uses of names in
Lojban can be paraphrased away so that only uninterpreted words within quotation
marks remain.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.