Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: le liste be ro gugde

From: "Newton, Philip" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 17:03:25 +0200

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Monday 17 June 2002 05:26, Newton, Philip wrote:
> li'o
> > Should those country names be made uniform? That is, make 
> > them all "le gismu", all "la rafgug", or all "la
> > kantrineim"?
> 
> Generally, they should be cmene, whether rafygug or 
> kantrineim.

Does that mean that either form is OK? Or should one standardise on either
"la rafygug" or "la kantrineim"?

And should these:

> > > aq 1 le dzipo
> > > ar 3 le gento
> > > au 3 le sralo
> > > ca 3 le kadno
> > > cn 3 le jungo
> > > eg 3 le misro
> > > es 2 le spano
> > > gr 2 le xelso
> > > in 3 le xindo
> > > jo 3 le jordo
> > > jp 3 le ponjo
> > > ru 2 le rusko
> > > sa 3 le sadjo
> > > ua 3 le vukro

turn into "la rafygug"/"la kantrineim", to be consistent?

> The gismu {brito} means "British", not "Britain", though Britain
> is of course British, so people sometimes use gismu as country
> names.

I'll bow to your knowledge of Lojban here. I just went by the fact that the
gi'uste lists "x1 reflects XXX ... nationality" as indicating that they
could refer to a country (and the fact that you had constructed several, but
not all, country-names of the form "le gismu").

mu'omi'e filip.
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