[lojban-beginners] caucme/cmecau (was "xelfanva")

["Brett Williams" <mungojelly@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Brett Williams <mungojelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > you might or might not want to use the popular new term for nameless:
> > "caucme"..
>
> Is it really popular, or is it only a word used by the jbotcan
> software? (BTW, is jbotcan down or is it just me that can't access
> it?) It seems that "cmecau" makes more sense for "nameless" (= claxu
> be lo cmene). "caucme" seems to be some kind of name (i.e. a word),
> not someone or something without a name.


Lojban is still such a small language.  I'm sure having Jbotcan use
the word "caucme" all day long has a lot of effect on how people
think.  I know that word is in my mind.  (Jbotcan is back up BTW,
yay!!! .ui cai)

This is how I think of it: If you don't have a name, then you're
cmecau.  But someone who's named "Anonymous" does have a name, namely
"Anonymous".  They have a name which is "caucme", a lacking name, that
is to say a name which is lacking the property of distinguishing an
individual.  One such name (the one used on Jbotcan) is zo "caucme"
itself, which is self-descriptive (another perfectly reasonable one
would be zo "cmecau", describing its user).

I like both of those words. :)  I also like both "djisku" and "skudji". :)

mu'o mi'e selkik