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

[jkominek@miranda.org]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 08:10:33AM +0100, sunnan@handgranat.org wrote:
> > 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.

Ah, I thought something like that might be the case, but since I couldn't
read the Japanese, I was out of luck.

> > (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?

It seems that you ought to be writing for understandability on Wikipedia.
Not intentionally complicating things.

-- 
Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>