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Re: [lojban] {softo}



It is my perception that even if {softo} refers to "Soviet", it would not be technically incorrect to refer to Cyrillic as {softo selyle'u} or {rusko selyle'u} (a la in English calling it "the Russian alphabet"), but it would be imprecise.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:23 PM, iesk <pa.fae@gmx.de> wrote:
I take {softo} to correspond to something like 'pertaining to the "Russosphere"', not (just) 'Soviet'. Since I don't know of any serious usage of that word, I'm not sure what to do with it, however.

Obviously the Cyrillic alphabet is not limited to that culture/area/whatever. On the other hand, the Latin alphabet is not limited to Latin -- is it {latmo} though? I don't know.

(Even more off topic: I don't get {lo'a}. How can it (or could it, if it were used) shift to the Lojban *slash* Latin alphabet? Do we not pretend that they are not necessarily the same thing? Does {lo'a} shift to Cyrillic in a Cyrillic Lojban text?)

-iesk

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