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Re: [lojban] Re: Honorifics
(I replied accidentally off-list, as usual, and xod responded. I'm
forwarding that now.)
----- Forwarded message from Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net> -----
I like the orthogonality of it. I don't want to mutilate the name. We only
have fewer than a dozen honorifics in English.
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Rob Speer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:38:37PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> > Experimental gadri can be used for honorifics.
>
> Oh fun.
>
> la'u'a the professor named...
> la'e'a'u the President named...
> la'a'i'ei the Grand Inquisitor named...
> la'u'i'u'a'a the witch doctor named...
>
> No thanks, I'll be sticking with the gism/CVC tactic.
>
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Rob Speer