On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:56 PM, sarvōdaya <
sarvodaya@thesilentnumber.me> wrote:
> Just wanted to provide an update on this conversation started over a year
> and a half ago.
>
> I chose a new name, sarvōdaya, a mononym, though it isn't in lojban as i'd
> originally considered/intended. It is a term that was coined by Gandhi
> meaning "progress for all" or "universal uplifting". Facebook doesn't allow
> mononyms, so i used swaraj, which means self-governance, as a last name for
> sites that require a last name. I was wondering if there are similar words
> in lojban. The closest i could find is trucau, meaning anarchy (the
> philosophy, not "chaos").
>
> I'm viewing this more as an adoption of a new name, rather than an
> abandonment of my birth name. While my new name will be my primary name, my
> "real" name, my family may always know my by the name they gave me, and
> that's fine. We all have many names, as i believe came up in this thread.
> Nicknames, legal names, birth names, pseudonyms, etc. I'm just changing
> which is my primary one.