[jbovlaste] Re: Emperor

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Nathaniel Krause scripsit:

> I think the main question is whether you are trying to come up with a
> gloss of an English (or other naljbo) word or whether you are describing
> something in your own words. 

Quite so, which is why the question "What is the Lojban word for X?" is
misconceived.  Even the question "What is the German word for 'hard'?"
has something like 40 different answers, appropriate in different senses
and contexts of use.

> So, it seems like natmi means nation in the more
> specific sense of a largish imagined community,

Basically, although a natmi can be pretty small.  There are only about
800 Havasupai, for example (a natmi that lives inside the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado).  The essence of nu gugde is sovereignty, though;
most natmi don't have that.

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