Re: [lojban] Summary: Cultural fu'ivla

[Oleksii Melnyk <lamelnyk@gmail.com>]

2010/4/2, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 15:07, komfo,amonan <komfoamonan@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Plus, English does something similar, where many language
> names end in -ese or -ian.

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AFAIK -ian (as, probably, -ish, -ese) does not make a "language name"
by itself. It makes an adjective, "related to something" (other
languages may differ, i do not know a lot of them). Frequently that
"something" is a locality. And "lenugo'i" is for the reason:
language/culture needs some "carrier density" to grow. So, "locality"
+ bangu, kulnu, etc. reflects the problem domain as close as possible,
which is good thing.

So, we only need the registry of locality names. Something like:
"Eng" ≈ "Earth/([49..54]°, [-2..+2]°,[500..nau]years)"...
From that we can get: territory (+tutra), language (+bangu),
culture(+kulnu), state(+gugde or jecta), and, probably, more. If we
join the parts as type3 fu'ivla, we'll get enough places for
"dialect/province/subculture". It will also play nice in bridi/tanru
(gugde be la .NAME., so on).

-- 
mu'o mi'e lex

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