[lojban] Re: Newbie questions

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Saturday 14 March 2009 19:34:40 robert wrote:
> Q2: Are there universally accepted city, country, and other political
> grouping names? For cities and countries I tried to use the native
> pronunciation, and for "Europe" I used English because (at least according
> to Wikipedia) English is the most known language in the EU.

"frans" is poetic; the usual word is "fasygug". I say it's poetic, because it 
appears in a poem in Alice.

For Marseille I'd say "marseil" or "masilias" (from Latin - another one is 
Oradea, which is called "varadinum").

For Europe I'd say "la rontut" or "lo rontu'a". (If there's only one of 
something denoted by a brivla, "le" and "lo" make equally good sense. I 
generally use "lo" in this case.)

Some others: tolzip - Arctic Ocean; misr - Egypt; bidgug - Indonesia; 
dotclant, daitclant, dotygug - Germany (not "doitclant", as that is "doi 
tclant").

Can you figure out: la suomen, lo suomne; la madiarorsag, lo magjaro; lo 
bangrxai; la .auskalerik, lo skalduna; lo mraigo; la .elvet, lo .elveto; lo 
nienke'a; lo siksika; lo tsalagi; lo .abniena; lo niengatu; lo bangrniena; lo 
sitlosa; lo sandaue; lo mancuri, lo jurcena; lo .uigru; lo luorvetla?

How would you say "Mesoamerica"?

On Saturday 14 March 2009 19:51:59 Minimiscience wrote:
> Yes, though I don't think "{la frans. nenri la .iurop.}" is
> technically correct. "{nenri}" means total containment, and I'm pretty
> sure France controls some islands in the Pacific and possibly
> elsewhere as well (I don't know about Italy, though).  "{se vasru}"
> can be used instead for containment that's not necessary total.

la fas.gian. ketco pagbu la frans. And of Corse there's Napoleon's origin.

mu'omi'e .pier.


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