From xod@sixgirls.org Sat Jun 02 15:57:57 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 2 Jun 2001 22:57:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 78005 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2001 22:57:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Jun 2001 22:57:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 Jun 2001 22:57:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f52MvtJ18843 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:57:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:57:55 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Allah In-Reply-To: <01060218290202.22635@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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. There are 99 names of Allah. Pick one! http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/7368/islam_99_names.htm But in Lojban, it is 'jegvo cevni'. Allah == the Jewish God == the Christian God. We don't need a special name to distinguish the God of the Muslims, because it's not a different God! ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!