Re: [lojban] Currency units

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:44 PM, komfo,amonan <komfoamonan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/4/4 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
>>
>> Of course, not that many country names in English use the suffix
>> -land, but I think in Chinese most country names do use the same
>> sufffix. (And lujvo ending in "-gu'e" are also quite frequent).
>
> Wikipedia gives about eight countries ending in 'guo2'.

Well, there goes another myth then... :(

This page lists 15:
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/country_names_in_chinese.htm
but still, nowhere near "most".

> Your comments are appreciated doi xorxes. I may be the sole opponent, & I'm
> not too thrilled with the typographical innovations either, so maybe I'm
> just a curmudgeon ;)

The ISO-fu'ivla are completely standard though. It's just a proposed
convention that falls fully within the official norms of the language.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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