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Welsh?
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: Welsh?
- From: "61510::GILSON" <cbmvax!uunet!CCF4.NRL.NAVY.MIL!pucc.PRINCETON.EDU!gilson!61510.decnet>
- Reply-To: "61510::GILSON" <cbmvax!uunet!CCF4.NRL.NAVY.MIL!pucc.PRINCETON.EDU!gilson!61510.decnet>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!pucc.PRINCETON.EDU!LOJBAN>
And Rosta <ucleaar%UCL.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU> writes:
>(2) I can't quite fathom the selection criteria for cultural gismu. Most
of them seem to be places where the languages Lojban derived its gismu
>from are spoken. Is this right? What happens to the rest? I can't help
>feeling that there's a certain kudos to being a gismu rather than a
>le'avla! My first impulse on reading the gismu list was to speak up
>for:
> camri Welsh
> madja Hungarian
> skera Basque
Why "camri"? The Welsh "c" of "Cymru" is not a Lojban "c" (pronounced like
English "sh") bit a Lojban "k."