[lojban-beginners] Re: towns and countries

[der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>]

[Would it be too much to ask that you not use paragraph-length lines?]

> But what do we do with names which are partly translatable e.g. Great
> Britain, South Korea, Belarus (White Russia), not to mention the USA?
> [...]  However, what about the others? {la banli briten} or {la
> greitbriten}?

There's prior art in the form of names used in other languages.  Great
Britain, for example, is Grande-Bretagne (or close) in French; United
Kingdom becomes Royaume-Uni.  So I would not hesitate to call it
something like {balritgug} or {jorne nolraitrugug}.

Of course, this doesn't help in all cases....

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