Re: [lojban] Re: Initial impression

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Oren <get.oren@gmail.com> wrote:

...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

  While I've never minded your "ku'us", I too wondered where it was from.  Say, here's a plan: use a gismu + aribitrary consonant (like bancus does) to change your name to "ckunuj".  That will keep your readers wondering if you are a confier, a book sandwich (Tanach + Talmud?), or simply a random collection of phonemes.  (I considered using pseudo-lujvo cmevla when transliterating the names in Esther, (hence vactic -> the apropos "evening trickster" for Vashit), but gave it up as unworkable in general, and went for (subjective) euphony instead).

                            --gejyspa