Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 20:49:16 Betsemes wrote:
> And what make nicknames and real names different? Nothing. The only
> difference is that a nickname is not the person's legal name. If
> Lojban would become mainstream, people very well may attempt to name a
> child with a brivla.

There are countries with laws on the linguistic forms of allowed names. 
Iceland requires that names be declinable in Icelandic. Turkey prohibits some 
non-Turkic letters in names, which annoys Kurds, who use these letters in both 
names and ordinary words in their language. Why shouldn't Lojbangug have such 
a law?

I favor keeping cmevla and brivla syntactically distinct. We've already 
eliminated the adjective and the adverb. Why eliminate the noun as well?

Pierre
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Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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