[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban is not Vulcan or Borg

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:04:01AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> But yes, camgusmis refers to Robin Lee Powell; it's formed from
> the rafsi of carmi+gusni+misno (intense+bright+fame), which is a
> translation of the name "Robin" into Lojban. I believe that Robin
> doesn't like the various obvious Lojbanisations of his name such
> as .robin. or .rabn. or the like and prefers .camgusmis., which is
> why I use that name for him. (And I further believe that of the
> "Robin"-based names, he dislikes .rabn. less since .robin. has
> inappropriate vowel sounds for the way he pronounces his name in
> English.)

All of these things are true.

-Robin

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