brivycme

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Brivycme (brivo + cmene; brivo is an experimental gismu for brivla) are names (typically prefixed by la) that take the form of brivla instead of cmevla. Some brivycme may take the form of words that do not have a defined meaning otherwise. (Often they are nonce-lujvo, but they may even take the form of undefined gismu or zi'evla if they happen to be aesthetically pleasing)

They are often preferred for calqued / translated (rather than transliterated) names, as they do not require pauses, and won't cause possible ambiguity between consonant-final rafsi and added final consonants. (e.g. is la .mensis. derived from mensi, or menli sisku?)

As brivycme cannot currently be entered into jbovlaste, here is a list of common brivycme used (feel free to add more, but keep the alphabetical order. Avoid personal names unless they are common renderings for a particular common name or famous person)

Additional note: There are experimental rafsi, -bom- and -nom-, indicating "start of name" and "end of name" respectively; either one is elidable. Usage of these is mostly informal and undefined, but may be useful for building words for concepts specific to a named system.

Second additional note: Breved letters (e.g. ĭ, ŭ) are only added to aid pronunciation by marking semivowels, and are not strictly needed.

  • la adzau : Voat (news aggregator website)
  • la baupla fuzykamni, abbrev. bypyfyky / byfy : The BPFK
  • la bauspo fazykamni, abbrev. bysyfyky / bysy : The BSFK
  • la canko : Windows (operating system)
    • variants: la cankyŭidje, la mikranti canko, la mikca'o
    • la canko litru / la ca'orli'u : Windows Explorer (program)
  • la dontu'u : YouTube (video-sharing website)
  • la dzapre : "Someone", the god of lazy people
  • la faglo'u : Firefox (web browser)
  • la flicku : Facebook (social media website)
  • la gadganzu, abbrev. gygy : The gadganzu proposal
  • la gugle : Google (search engine or company)
    • la guglyfanva : Google Translate
    • la guglykagni : (specifically refers to company)
    • la guglymri : Gmail (email provider)
    • la guglysisku : (specifically refers to search engine)
      • la guglyxrasisku : Google Image Search
    • la guglyterdi : Google Earth
    • la guglyŭencu : Google Docs
  • la jbo'irci : The official Lojban IRC channel
  • la jboŭitki : This very wiki
  • la jbovlaste, abbrev. jyvysy : Jbovlaste, community-maintained Lojban dictionary
  • la kakpyzba : Minecraft (computer game)
  • la kerbale kesli'uci'e : Kerbal Space Program (computer game)
  • la kibli'u : Internet Explorer (web browser)
  • la makfa nunjmaji, may be just la makfa : Magic: The Gathering (card game)
  • la mensi : Mensi / "Sister", a program with various functions including dictionary search and parsing, available in la jbo'irci and this portal
  • la mi dirba xirma : My Little Pony (cartoon)
  • la mikranti / la mikri : Microsoft (software company)
    • la mikybriju : Microsoft Office
      • la mikca'o : Microsoft Windows (as with la canko)
      • la miky'aksese : Microsoft Access
      • la miky'eksele : Microsoft Excel
      • la mikyvla : Microsoft Word
  • la plise : Apple (software company)
  • la remoi nunji'e / la relnunji'e : Second Life (virtual roleplaying system)
  • la romge : Chrome (web browser)
  • la skaipe : Skype (chat program)
  • la sutysisku : Sutysisku / "Fast-searcher", a search engine for la jbovlaste.
  • la terjansu : Diplomacy (board game)
  • la ŭitkipediĭa / la ŭitki : Wikipedia (website)
    • la ŭitkyvlaste : Wiktionary
    • la ŭitkyvrici: Wikimedia