History: iankis

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lai .iankis. jinga .i lai .yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy .iankis. jinga ''Sorry, that's ''those called .iankis.'' and none of them are the Yankees, they are all just one Yankee individually - try ''lai .iank. jinga I'm not sure you're right about how ''lai'' works; I have to think about it some more. But even if you're right, you're still wrong. After all, they aren't called "Yank" either. By your analysis, each is called a "Yankee." Which would be ''.ianki''. But Lojban cmene can't end in vowels, so you have to change it to end in a consonant. There are (at least) two ways of doing that: remove the final vowel(s), or tack on an extra consonant -- any consonant. Which you do is a matter of personal choice. You might argue that one way is perhaps more appropriate than the other, but you can't say that someone is wrong for chosing to cmenify ''.ianki'' as ''.iankis''. Back to your analysis of ''lai'' for a minute, though, what about the Heat or the Jazz, which have no individual term for the players (hmm... is a member of the Heat a Calorie?) I would think ''lai X'' would be appropriate for a mass with a name (in fact, isn't that exactly what it means?) ''--mi'e ((Mark Shoulson|mark))'' * No, it isn't. A named mass uses ''la'', not ''lai'': ''lai'' is appropriate for masses whose components share a name, as in ''lai djonz.'' = "the Joneses".