From lalo@hackandroll.org Mon May 08 02:20:30 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14229 invoked from network); 8 May 2000 09:20:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 May 2000 09:20:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO terra.gf.com.br) (200.221.32.200) by mta3 with SMTP; 8 May 2000 09:20:27 -0000 Received: from lalo by terra.gf.com.br with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 12ojiC-0007zv-00; Mon, 8 May 2000 06:20:24 -0300 Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 06:20:24 -0300 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Lojbanizing my (nick)name Message-ID: <20000508062023.D30621@hackandroll.org> Mail-Followup-To: Lalo Martins , lojban@egroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.9i X-URL: http://www.webcom.com/lalo From: Lalo Martins Hi all :-) First let me introduce myself. I'm starting to learn Lojban; primarily out of personal interest in linguistics and the international language ideal, but also in practice to use it in a work of fiction (writing the alien text in Lojban will give me two instant benefits - a consistent "alien" language and the "feeling" that they think differently and see the word trough a different POV). BTW, for the stats, I'm in Brazil. Portuguese is my first language and English is the only other language I can really communicate on, altough I have skimmed trough esperanto, german and spanish on different stages of my life. OTOH I can program in about 10 computer languages, so Lojban is a kind of adventure - something like a human language and a computer language ;-) Now to the point. Well, looks like the first step is to "lojbanize" my name - but I don't actually use my name in written text in normal situations, I use Lalo instead, which starts with "La"... Is "la" only illegal in cmene when it is followed by a consonant or i? This probably leaves me two choices - {laylun} or {lylun}. I like the first better, is it legal? ({ay} is probably awful for most people to pronounce, I think it'd sound like something between american "uh" and "ah" with the correct accent) I'd also like to have a lojbanized version of my IRC nickname - Bastet - but not literally (cmene-ly). In the context I use it, it means "cat person" (like a werewolf, but with a cat instead of wolf). Anyone wants to suggest a lujvo for that? []s, |alo +---- -- Hack and Roll ( http://www.hackandroll.org ) News for, uh, whatever it is that we are. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:lalo@hackandroll.org pgp key in the personal page Brazil of Darkness (RPG) --- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar