From mathmaniac@hanmail.net Wed Apr 16 03:23:41 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: mathmaniac@hanmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_5); 16 Apr 2003 10:23:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 92915 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2003 10:23:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 Apr 2003 10:23:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n3.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.86) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Apr 2003 10:23:41 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.139] by n3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Apr 2003 10:23:41 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:23:41 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: mi'e Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <003501c30400$6c9aa0d0$ab9eb280@ic.intranet.epfl.ch> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 811 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "sshiskom" X-Originating-IP: 143.248.205.98 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122399845 X-Yahoo-Profile: sshiskom > why using selgugde? > When type 2/3 fu'ivla are constructed, the main idea is to have them > preceded with a semantical category. so gugdrkoria. No. {le selgugdrkoria} was intended to mean "People of Korea", that is, "Korean". Isn't {le gugdrkoria} just means "Korea (as a country)"? ---- Someone of the same generation in the family shares {tamne lerfu}, -- "degree letter"? -- therefore one can know whether others are of higher generation or not. For example, "sang" is for my generation, "gi" is for my father's generation, "gab" is for my grandfather's generation. So if I meet my relative named "seo gihun", he must be one generation higher than me. Ok. This is how things worked, but this custom is on the way of fading away -- mainly because nuclearization of Korean families. ---- mi'e sanxiyn.