Re: [Ladekwa] Re: "Electorate"

Whereas, in Australia, we use "electorate" for the area and "constituency" for the people. In New South Wales we don't really use the term "district". We have municipalities and shires, but I don't think we have districts. But I think in Queensland they might use "district" to describe certain local government areas.

 

Thanks very much for your help, Shadow. My main concern is simply that any word that I coin fit in consistently with the way that other words have been coined.
 

Geoff
 

On 31/10/05, The Shadow <grose12@hidden.email> wrote:

Interesting.  This must be a dialectical difference, as using the term
"electorate" for an area sounds very odd to my (Pacific Northwest USA)
ears.  I've never heard it used that way before.  We use the term
"district" for the area around here - the "electorate" is always the
people.

Given the use you have in mind, I don't see anything wrong with the
construction you've made, though I'll take a look over the Ladekwa
docs a bit when I have time.

--- In Ladekwa@yahoogroups.com, Geoff Hacker <geoff.hacker@g...> wrote:
>
> That's not going to work. The word "electorate" can refer either to
a group
> of electors or the area in which they live. In Australia, it is the
latter
> definition that is the most useful because groups of electors are
defined by
> the area in which they live to begin with. For example, my State
electorate
> is Marrickville and my Federal electorate is Grayndler. Those are
areas, not
> groups of people, so the use of "taw" to describe them seems necessary
> enough to me.
>  Geoff
>
>  On 30/10/05, MorphemeAddict@w... <MorphemeAddict@w...>
> wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 10/30/2005 2:37:23 AM Central Standard Time,
> > geoff.hacker@g... writes:
> >
> >
> > I am looking for a Ladekwa word for "electorate". I note that the
word for
> > "elect" is "dyebawpu" and the word for "area" is "byetaw", which
could form
> > the basis of a word like "dyebawbyetaw", or a
> > government+vote+constituency+other natural location. However, I am
very open
> > to suggestion about this, so what does everybody think?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Geoff
> >
> >
> >
> > I wouldn't use "taw" at all. I think of an electorate as a body of
people
> > who are entitled to vote. Since 'elect' is "dyebawpu", I suggest
simply
> > "lidyebawpumi" - 'electors'.
> >
> > stevo
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