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Re: sera'aku SNU: ki'e doi skot.

To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
Subject: Re: sera'aku SNU: ki'e doi skot.
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:52:29 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199601161039.FAA25726@locke.ccil.org> from "Don Wiggins" at Jan 16, 96 10:12:32 am

la dn. cusku di'e

> Describing a culture as a two-part lujvo.  This seems an extraordinary idea.
> Is it possible?  For instance, how does one do Irish?

The gismu list gives "sicko'o" = "Western-Scot".  This is a bit odd
synchronically, but historically has some validity:  the "Scoti" were the
Irish, who kept that name when they moved east, although more or less
abandoning it in the homeland.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

References:
- sera'aku SNU: ki'e doi skot.
  - From: Don Wiggins <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>

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