Re: [lojban] Re: Lojbanising words?

[Oren <get.oren@gmail.com>]

not to project emotion on you, but I might feel { .oiro'a .i'a }

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 21:14, A. PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:
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> Ouch!  What's the emoticon for 'sheepish'?  That's what
> happens when you rush through your emails.
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> totus
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> From: Ross Ogilvie <oges007@gmail.com>
> To: lojban-list@lojban.org
> Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 7:41:08 AM
> Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojbanising words?
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> I'm pretty sure they understood and were making a joke of your typo. (the
> {si} following the "is", with {si} in lojban having the effect of erasing
> the "is")
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> mu'o mi'e ros.
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> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:29 PM, A. PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:
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>> > From: Lindar Greenwood <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>
>> > To: lojban-list@lojban.org
>> > Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 3:05:20 AM
>> > Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojbanising words?
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>> > >> There is no justification for basing names on their English
>> > pronunciation unless
>> >> English is si the local language
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>> >I don't get "... unless English the local language."
>> > :-p
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>> Hah, I totally read it that way, too.
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>> Sorry.  What I meant was that, taking cities as an example,
>> you would lojbanize the names of those cities as pronounced
>> by their inhabitants (i.e. the local language).  That's fairer and
>> more 'neutral' than using their English names even though more
>> people around the world may recognize the English name.
>> So the lojban name for India's largest city should be based on
>> Mumbai even though more people around the world would
>> still recognize Bombay.
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