From cowan@ccil.org Sat Jun 02 11:46:38 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 2 Jun 2001 18:46:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 26155 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2001 18:46:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Jun 2001 18:46:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 Jun 2001 18:46:37 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 156GPy-0001Py-00; Sat, 02 Jun 2001 14:46:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Allah In-Reply-To: <01060220594600.01579@neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr> from Robin Turner at "Jun 2, 2001 08:59:45 pm" To: Robin Turner Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:46:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Robin Turner scripsit: > I'm not sure that {la musycei} would be an appropriate name, since Muslims > are adamant that the god they worship is not specific to Muslims, but is also > the god of Jews, Christians or indeed any monotheist That is what the word "jegvo" was invented for. > I'd go for {la .alax.} as the simplest cmene. Unfortunately, it contains "la" preceded by a vowel, and so it's illegal: it breaks down to "la .a la x." which is ungrammatical but morphologically legitimate. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter