[lojban] Re: Initial impression

[Lindar Greenwood <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

>I'll join this naming tangent!
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>I chose the lojban name {ku'us} because ku'u is the rafsi for ckunu (conifer), and my legal american name Oren is Hebrew (××××) for pine tree. .ui

That's strange! *{ku'u} is a modal of {kulnu}, so perhaps this is not the best choice for a clear interpretation?
Perhaps a better choice would just be *{la ckunu}. Either that, or you could be *{la selku'u} (Hi, my name is Pinecone!).

Honestly, the *lojban thing* + s|n convention is getting stale, especially since there are names that end up "meaning" (it doesn't actually mean anything in Lojban, but we get the idea, like for bancus or kribacr) something when there was no intent. My name is one such thing that ends up 'meaning' something because it's incidentally two rafsi (Hi, my name is 66 feet.) smashed together. Honestly, I'd just assume that your name outside of Lojbanistan was something like "Kooce" or "Kuhuce" were I to see that name, whereas *{la ckunu} is rather Unambiguousâ.

>.i ta'onai
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>And I actually like the look of periods in front of attitudinals, because in my mind attitudinals are like punctuation marks. Well, except that by definition they don't punctuate so much as freely add attitude anywhere, but in a sense they do replace certain 'punctuation marks,' for example when chatting, '!?!?!?' can sometimes be replaced with .o'onai

<scruffy>Second.</scruffy>



      


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