From phma@oltronics.net Sat Jun 02 15:40:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 2 Jun 2001 22:40:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 51571 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2001 22:40:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Jun 2001 22:40:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.52) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 Jun 2001 22:40:38 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 677DA3C635; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:29:03 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Allah Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:24:30 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <01060220594600.01579@neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr> In-Reply-To: <01060220594600.01579@neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060218290202.22635@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, Robin Turner wrote: >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 (more liberal Muslims >count Hindus in here as well, since technically all the Hindu gods are >aspects of bhagvan, and way-out Muslims count Taoists in as well). I'd go >for {la .alax.} as the simplest cmene. If you want to translate "Allah", it >just comes out as {le cevni}. If you want to specifically exclude all the >other possible candidates, I suppose you could use {le jegycei}, though it's >a pretty ugly word. The problem with "la .alax." is that it's not a valid Lojban cmene - it breaks into "la .a la x". That's why we have these variants alex, alyx, ala'ax, ala'um, ala'un. phma