Re: [lojban] Re: Medieval

[Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru>]

On 17.10.2006, 6:44, Bob LeChevalier wrote:

> komfo,amonan wrote:
>> On 10/16/06, *Yanis Batura* <ybatura@mail.ru <mailto:ybatura@mail.ru>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>      > Checking the Wikipedia article, it looks like it's a European
>>     period, so
>>      > {ronmijycedra} might work.
>> 
>>     Hmmm... I needed that word for talking about ninjas and samurais... :) 
>> 
>> 
>> According to Wikipedia's History of Japan article there is a period 
>> called the "Japanese Middle Ages". So perhaps {ponmijycedra}.

> Rather than copying the metaphor used in other languages, I think the 
> common feature of the "middle ages" of both cultures was feudalism (and
> indeed,  the boundaries of the era tend to be associated with the 
> beginning and end of a feudal nobility (Yanis may have an opinion on 
> this, since in Russia the feudal nobility essentially persisted up until
> the 20th century).

> So come up with a lujvo for feudalism or feudal nobility [...]

Coining a lujvo for feudalism is *much* more difficult than for Middle
ages. :)



mi'e .ianis.

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