Re: [lojban] word for "www" (was: Archive location.)

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la lojbab cusku di'e

> But then why isn't a person "pa selci be lo'e prenu", with pa prenu being a
> quantity of persons (i.e. a people)

Because we are more interested in talking about individual
persons than about individual water molecules, and the basic
roots define the more common concepts.

> >I have seen {mergu'e} used often, which is a lujvo for "United States".
>
> Has it ever been quantified?  Is there pa mergu'e or muno mergu'e?

pa mergu'e without the slightest doubt.

> I don't think we can say one way or another until we see how people
> translate the concept of "one people" in some context where it would use
> prenu.

But you did say it could be just as well one or the other.
I agree that usage could eventually make prenu meaningful
in that sense or any other, but it would be very far from the
current meaning.

> (I suspect that I would usually use natmi or the x2 of one of the
> places that has a people in that place like bangu).

Yes, so would I.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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