Random |mormon| :-) (was: my proposals for a philosophical
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Friday, January 24, 2003, 10:59 |
Steg Belsky scripsit:
> You do realize, don't you, that just by saying that you're begging
> someone to put the word "mormon" into their conlang as something
> completely random? Like 'carrot' or 'jumping jacks'? :-)
In Lojban "mormon" is a proper name, like all words ending in a consonant,
but if you break it down into morphemes it means "the Moroccan Pattern".
The word for "Mormon", the adjective, would be something crunchy like
"lijdrmormona".
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