[jbovlaste] Military ranks

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>]

coi

I've been thinking about how one might 
translate military ranks into lojban.

There are many of them, and I don't think 
lujvo are the way to go.  Imagine coming up 
with lujvo for: Major General, Lieutenant Colonel, 
2nd Lieutenant etc etc etc.

One approach, may be to fu'ivla based on rank 
codes that NATO uses in order establish 
equivalency between the ranks of its different 
members (the UIN has nothing like this).

Example:

OF-10 = General of the Army (US) = Field Marshal (UK).
OF-2   = Captain (Canada) = Shang Wei (China)

For a full list, see  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_officer_ranks

So, my questrion is: Can we use lerfu strings to create fu'ivla?

Examples: 
OF-10: jatnrobufypano
OF-2: jatnrobufyre

mu'o mi'e .totus.