Subject: Re: Languages' names for Lojban (was: RE: [lojban] French word for "Lojban"

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 12:49:01 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jorge Llambias wrote:

> 
> la djan cusku di'e
> 
> >When I first heard of it, I pronounced it /lojban/; why not?
> 
> English is much more eclectic in that sense. In Spanish
> it would have to be spelled "loiban", which is of
> course a possibility. There is no reason to retain the
> lojbanic spelling, but it is convenient.

It would never occur to me to pronounce an obviously non-English
word as if it were English.

-- 
John Cowan [email-masked]
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"