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''zi'o cmene mi'' Which of course leads to the real xavoki'o rupnu question: just how does zi'o differ from noda? I'd say "noda" would really be better for this (or, as one Lojbanana already does, cmeclax[[u]). Well, technically "noda" isn't right either, since I __do__ have a name, I'm just not giving it. But even if we're considering it to be truly nameless, that's still ''noda'': there is no thing that is my name. ''zi'o cmene mi'' means "there's a naming sort of relationship between me and some unspecified namer (the elided ''zo'e''), but the actual quoted name doesn't enter into it." That's not necessarily a meaningless statement, but it isn't what I think of when I hear "Anonymous." (it could be something quite profound, depending on the situation and what that namer is). Unfortunately, it's very easy to think that ''zi'o'' is just a cool/profound/1337 way to say ''noda'', and it isn't. ''--mi'e ((Mark Shoulson|mark))'' ((John Cowan|I)) think the normal predicate "anonymous" is ''nalgubni selcme''. How about simply ''nardjuno cmene'' or ''nordjuno cmene''? {cein} Or, if you want the Odysseus effect, ''nonynanmu''. * But that's part of him tricking the cyclops into announcing "Nobody has blinded me" and thus not being helped by his companions - who believe that he wasn't blinded by anybody.
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