[lojban-beginners] Re: I've written a wikipedia article

[sunnan@handgranat.org]

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:54:27AM +0100, sunnan@handgranat.org wrote:
>> It's more of a stub than an article, it's only three sentences.
>>
>> Corrections and comments are very welcome. It's at
>> http://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/la_pacruxydinj
>
> The article name shouldn't start with "la". (How many others do, after
> all?)

Right, I'll change that.

> Further, "Castlevania" is a name which doesn't really have any
> inherent meaning, so you should have been Lojbanizing it, rather than
> making a lujvo-name.

This early in the article's life (and I've just found out that the
jbo.wikipedia does have a stub template, which I'll add) I haven't gotten
to write about the american/european releases yet, only the japanese
releases. The japanese releases (with a few exceptions) were under the
name Demon Castle Dracula - akumajou durakyura.

> And the first place of cmene (and thus the me'e
> modal) wants quoted text, not a reference to a person. So you want
> zoi, not la'o.

Thanks! I'll fix. I mostly use the gismu and cmavo lists as references,
and it's hard to always understand them correctly.

> (And, personally, I'm not a fan of sel+rafsi. You're gaining like,
> what, one letter? Maybe a syllable? And then we've got to know all the
> rafsi. Blah.)

The good thing is that it helps me (and others) to learn the rafsi. It's
nicer to speak and think, as well. What do others think?

Thanks for your comments.