[jbovlaste] Re: Emperor

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

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>Regarding "sorgugnai", I've never been very clear on exactly what a gugde or a 
>natmi is, but the gismu glosses natmi as "nation/ethnic group" and in brackets 
>as [people sharing a history/culture], while gugde is a "country" and 
>parenthetically(people/territory relationship). So, it seems like natmi means 
>nation in the more specific sense of a largish imagined community, as opposed to 
>
>the more colloquial sense of a political regime as found in the name of the 
>United Nations. An empire is arguable a type of gugde, but the whole point of it 
>
>is that it rules various natmi. So, perhaps an empire would be a sornai gugje'a, 
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>while a union like the EU would be a sorgu'e jecta?
>

I agree.

totus