From phma@oltronics.net Sun Aug 27 14:44:33 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13815 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2000 21:44:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Aug 2000 21:44:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta3 with SMTP; 27 Aug 2000 21:44:32 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA13357 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:44:25 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.31, neofelis, , 207.15.133.31 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 17:44:28(EDT) on August 27, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] World-historical and religious figures in Lojban Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:31:20 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0008271734400D.14222@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, pycyn@aol.com wrote: li'o > As for Caesar, since we know pretty well how he would have said it and this >knnowledge is pretty widely disseminated, I suspect we go with iulius >kaisar. Having just read a novel in which Jesus appears in Aramaic, Greek, >Latin and both P- and Q-Celtic, I find that harder, but come down on balance >for iecuys. I suggest iecu,ys. Without the slaka bu the uys sounds like "wuss", making y a full vowel and u a semivowel, the opposite of the way it's pronounced in Hebrew. What did the Celts say? phma