[lojban-beginners] Re: Nick-cmevla

[Sunnan <sunnan@handgranat.org>]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:30 -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On 11/26/05, HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Popular formatives are -i, -y, -ka or -d, depending on the language.
> 
> -chjo (male) and -njo (female) in Esperanto.
> -ito/-ita are common in Spanish.
> -inho/inha in Portuguese.

-chan in japanese of course!

> > I'm curious about the Lojbanic convention to do the same.
> 
> There is no convention yet. Shortening is always a possibility,
> for example I sometimes call la camgusmis {camgus}.
> Maybe you can add -dib (from {dirba}) for an affectionate
> nickname: {do jinvi ma doi darvesydib}.

Another way is "bridification" of the name, but maybe you'd need pe'a
for that.