[lojban] Re: Logical Naming Conventions

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

Morpheme, the naming conventions on Gaia from the Foundation series is mentioned as an aside in the books.  I don't think that people's names consisted of literal words like "mayorhumanitariangreatorator" but rather like "daniel" has meaning associated with it.

Or in lojban terms, maybe one would use the rafsi of different words that they associate with to make one enormous lujvo like construct (but in cmene form).  So from my earlier example, skamilojbozoigo becomes skajbozoigos, or skaj in day to day use.  I would guess most names would be much longer as most people don't really identify with only a few interests.

Kind of reminds me of geek code.

 - Luke Bergen

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:00 PM, <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:

In a message dated 4/29/2009 12:52:15 Eastern Daylight Time, danny.piccirillo@gmail.com writes:

Well, my name is Danny, and that to me has no meaning. Does this qualify as a "nonsense" name? I'm just asking to make sure we're talking about the same thing.

I would say it's not a nonsense name.  While "Danny" itself may have no meaning, at least to you, it is part of a large network of associations.  It's the usual nickname for "Daniel", which has a long and Biblical history.  It's not a made-up name, like the one I suggested.

stevo