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[lojban-beginners] Re: la
On 6/28/07, Turniansky, Michael [UNK] <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com> wrote:
In answer to your P.S.... well, you can certainly call yourself that,
but it would imply a derivation of "a corporate coldness".
Or "corporate cool" :)
I wouldn't say {kaglek} really implies that, that's just one of the many
suggestive readings it can have. For example, the name {bancus}
suggests to me both "bancu+s" and "ban+cus". There are no rules
for constructing cmevla out of other elements of the language, it just
has to end in a consonant and respect the phonological rules, but
there are no compositional rules. Lojbab once mentioned that they
gave their daughter the name "Katrina" because it suggests {ka trina}.
Lojbanized as {katrinas} or {katrin} the suggestion will still be there,
though in the latter case there is also the kat+rin reading.
What you are looking for is kamgek or kamglek
Those would be open to fewer suggestions than kaglek, yes, but it is
not as if kaglek must necessarily be read as the combination kag+lek.
Perhaps kaglek might be preferred just because one thinks it sounds
better.
(or even "kamgei", which would
definitely have the meaning, rather than merely implying a derivation)
if you are trying to derive from "ka gleki".
Yes, using a lujvo does give a transparent origin. You could even be
called {la ka gleki}, but that would require terminators much more
often.
mu'o mi'e xorxes