[lojban] Re: "Game", "Player"

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On 10 Jul 2003, Martin [ISO-8859-1] Norbäck wrote:

> tor 2003-07-10 klockan 06.46 skrev Eric Sumner:
> > I am trying to translate the Monopoly rules and other pieces into lojban, and I
> > have come up with a slight problem.  The tanru that I am using for a game is
> > {tolvajni terjivna}, which works just fine until I want to talk about someone
> > who plays the game.
>
> I don't know if translating the Monopoly® rules will violate any
> copyrights, as it's a quite old game, but if you want to translate
> another game, you can have a go at Nomic :)
>
> http://www.lojban.org/wiki/index.php/NomicRules
>
> I've only done the first rule, and yes, I used "le kelci" for "player".
> selkelci for game is not far fetched. tolvajni terjivna seems wrong,
> Monopoly could be vajni for some people (I know there have been real
> contests using Monopoly)


The other problem with "tolvajni" is that you might have preferred
"xalbo".



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