[lojban] Re: Medieval

[Bob LeChevalier <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

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, and the 
"middle ages" is the feudal-era.  And that works in Japan as well as Europe.

lojbab



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