Re: [lojban] Defining an ethnos in Lojban

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:22:22 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>>    It works for me, but why not a more simple "ko'a berstici kartuli
>> se kai ko'e"?
>
> *A non-Mingrelian Georgian may be living in Mingrelia, and a Mingrelian may be
> living in southeast Georgia.
> *Mingrelians, as a people, are a subset of Georgians, but the Mingrelian
> language is a distinct related language.
> *"se kai ko'e" doesn't necessarily imply that ko'e is of a type that can fit
> into x2 of kartuli (or margaluri or fraso autc.), and since you didn't say
> "ko'a berstici kartuli ko'e", gricely implies that it could be something that
> doesn't.
>
> I used "le berstici kartuli" to imply that I had a particular kartuli in mind,
> namely the Mingrelian people, who are kartuli lo ka natmi kei jenai lo ka
> bangu.

  Yes, but a non-Mingrelian Georgian living in Mingrelia is Mingrelian
in the aspect of living there, no?

   lo natmi jo'u kulnu jo'u bangu valsi so'aroi vasru lo remoi be le'i
terbri be'o poi norsatci .i xu na go'i

        --gejyspa

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