Re: [lojban] language codes was: So what do we say for Swedish?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Friday 02 April 2010 14:20:28 Jorge Llambías wrote:
>> According to Wikipedia, they are all in use:
>>
>> aaa: Ghotuo
>> aab: Alumu-Tesu
>> aba: Abé
>> abb: Bankon
>> baa: Babatana
>> bab: Bainouk-Gunyuño
>> bba: Baatonum
>> bbb: Barai
>>
>> I propose those eight be used as test cases.
>
> I've never heard of any of those languages, except Ghotuo which I found when
> looking at template aaa on Wiktionary, and I think that if you run this
> nunfu'ivlazba to completion, you're going to end up with a humongous list
> that's as desuet as a dule of doves.

Well, the nice thing about my algorithm is that you don't really need
to make any actual list. You just know that for any three letter
language code, there is a fu'ivla there ready to be used that goes
with that code. You don't create it until you want to use it.

> I do not see a need for coining a type-4 or even type-3 fu'ivla for Baatonum
> or Babatana until some Lojbanist is interested in those languages. Leave them
> at type 1.

You can think of "banbubu'a" not as meaning "x1 is Baatonum" but
rather as meaning "x1 is the language with ISO-code 'bba'".

Then if Baatonum for some reason became a hosehold word in
Lojbanistan, and people found "banbubu'a" too cumbersome, a more
friendly name could be coined.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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