From xod@thestonecutters.net Wed Jun 05 16:29:17 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@thestonecutters.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 5 Jun 2002 23:29:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 16599 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2002 23:29:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Jun 2002 23:29:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO granite.thestonecutters.net) (66.111.194.10) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Jun 2002 23:29:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (xod@localhost) by granite.thestonecutters.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g55NTC753244 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:29:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from xod@thestonecutters.net) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:29:12 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] casnu bau la lojban le si'o selma'o In-Reply-To: <20020605170905.A10807@miranda.org> Message-ID: <20020605192628.O53210-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=110189215 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Jay F Kominek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:15:08PM -0400, Craig wrote: > > >I think it should be "la me zo ui". "la'e zo ui" means "what the word {ui} > > >refers to", which is a state of happiness, not a selma'o. As to "la'o ly. UI > > >.ly", I'm not sure how to pronounce it. > > > > Weell, if we use the Capital = letter name convention, we get .ubuibu, which > > is just silly. > > Bah, that's xod trying to make the text more colorful, not a convention. I was really under the impression that someone else came up with the idea. Especially since it was done in Loglan! (bottom, http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/index.php?Capitals%20as%20letter%20names) I think the capital tradition is strictly English, and have forgotten why the trivial "cmavo zo ui" is so horrible. -- Nisha, 26, clutching an ice cream and her toddler son, read impassively through a leaflet calling for immediate dialogue with Pakistan to avert the horror of a nuclear war. "Why should we worry about this?" she said with a shrug. "India has more nuclear weapons than Pakistan. We will wipe them off the map and win the war."