From lojbab@lojban.org Sun May 21 13:58:44 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23856 invoked from network); 21 May 2000 20:58:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 21 May 2000 20:58:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy.cais.net) (205.252.14.63) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 May 2000 20:58:43 -0000 Received: from bob (31.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.31]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09726 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 16:57:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000521165759.00b07170@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 17:00:33 -0400 To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] Help with fiction In-Reply-To: <200005202042.QAA12286@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <4.2.2.20000520151152.00af9a30@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 04:42 PM 05/20/2000 -0400, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >>{mipri girzu}? {sivni girzu}? > > > >You have presented reasons why they are not necessarily a tradition > >"cabal". With Lojban, they have decide just what they are trying to say. > >Why? It's a name. If I call myself "la carmi gusni misno", a >literalist translation of 'Robin', to wit, "Bright Fame", I am _not_ >nescessarily saying that I am a bright light nor than I am famous, let >alone that I am a bright light type of famous, whatever that may mean, >any more than a person with the last name Bear is asserting their >bear-like qualities. I am mystified by the problem then - why don't they just call themselves "la kabal" or even "la cabal" if they are not interested in the connotations? And if they are interested in connotations, then my point is that they have to decide which ones they want to convey and choose the name that conveys them. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org