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Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla
la .van. cu cusku di'e
Actually since someone first told me that brivla are allowed
cmene I always disliked even that quite a lot. It's too easy to confuse
these "names" with the bridi meaning.
Then how do people not get confused about someone being called Amado or
Aimé? And even if they do, I'm confident that you can tell apart {la}
from {lo}, which are even clearer.
Nothing against you selpa'i,
but you're definitely not my beloved and if e.g. {coi selpa'i} leaves
this open, I'm pretty pissed.
On IRC at least, {coi broda} is considered the same as {coi le broda},
not {coi la broda}.
To me, {coi selpa'i} greets someone beloved, not someone named
"selpa'i". If you want to greet me, say {coi la selpa'i} or I won't
assume you mean me.
Also in NatLangs not having this distinction
can introduce formal ambiguities for colloquial speech (german: "Der Mueller
ist zuverlaessig" - {la OR lo mlopre cu se lacri}).
But not in Lojban. We have la and lo to disambiguate.
I strongly agree with la lojbab on that one:
brivla are nicknames, NOT proper names.
I don't see why that should be so. Seems quite arbitrary.
If you wish to make them names, use cmene that look similar
or end in non-final rafsi.
My name is "selpa'i" and nothing else. I do not identify with any other
string of letters. My name is not {.selpa'is.} and also not {.selpam.},
those are entirely different names.
mu'o mi'e la selpa'i
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