On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 14:06, Lindar Greenwood <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
<scruffy>Second.</scruffy>
Is that like an untidy person saying {.ie} ? Or am I missing the meaning of 'second?'
It was one of the beginner texts I read that suggested the {jbo} + 'n/s' self-naming convention, and I didn't even realize that my name was an overloaded rafsi!
I guess I liked the thin veil of mystery; a rafsi and an arbitrary consonant made my particular choice {ku'us} more subtle. Although in the name of being direct, clear and Unambiguous (which is kinda the point, right?) I think its very sensible to adopt a gismu for a name. I think that's what I'll recommend for any recruits I muster up.
...However, this sort of makes me want to think a bit harder before I reform my own name. From lojban's rather extensive set of semantic radicals, which one do I want to have associated with myself? Do I really identify with pinecones? Yet another existential decision to make!
mu'o mi'e mi