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Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban] A suggestion for the Lojban names of weekdays and months.



On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If having cmene for months and days names would work (I'm not clear if
> there's any problem with that) we could have {ma'ipav} for January and
> so on up to {ma'igaib} ('b' added arbitrarily) or {ma'iparel} for
> December.

We already have pamast, remast, cimast, etc as cmevla. The thing with
cmevla is their artificially restricted grammar, so I can't use "la
.cimast. cicyractu" for "the March Hare" in Alice, and I refuse to use
"la me la .cimast. cicyractu".

(I currently have "la cibymasti cicyractu", but to me that sounds more
like "the Three Months Old Hare".)

> Is there any problem on having a cmene rather than a brivla? After all
> it's what January is: a name.

It would be much less of a problem if cmevla were syntactically more flexible.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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