From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Sep 04 05:17:07 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 4 Sep 2002 12:17:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 80889 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2002 12:17:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Sep 2002 12:17:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 2002 12:17:06 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA10264; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:28:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209041228.IAA10264@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:17:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] la lojban or le lojban To: gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch (G. Dyke) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:17:03 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com (jboste) In-Reply-To: <002101c253ee$1feddf80$a699ca3e@oemcomputer> from "G. Dyke" at Sep 04, 2002 10:35:27 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan G. Dyke scripsit: > I've been wondering whether the gender of lojban in french should be > masculine, like (nearly?) all languages (le francais, le srilankais etc.) or > should it be feminine to reflect the fact that lojban calls itself "la > lojban" Well, as far as our scanty materials go, it's "el lojban" in Spanish, though that is certainly not dispositive. I think the fact that the Lojban name article looks feminine is irrelevant. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today. --_Specht v. Netscape_