At 04:42 PM 05/20/2000 -0400, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>{mipri girzu}? {sivni girzu}?
>
>You have presented reasons why they are not necessarily a tradition
>"cabal". With Lojban, they have decide just what they are trying to say.
Why? It's a name. If I call myself "la carmi gusni misno", a
literalist translation of 'Robin', to wit, "Bright Fame", I am _not_
nescessarily saying that I am a bright light nor than I am famous, let
alone that I am a bright light type of famous, whatever that may mean,
any more than a person with the last name Bear is asserting their
bear-like qualities.
I am mystified by the problem then - why don't they just call themselves "la kabal" or even "la cabal" if they are not interested in the connotations? And if they are interested in connotations, then my point is that they have to decide which ones they want to convey and choose the name that conveys them.
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