From dbtwery@bellatlantic.net Thu Aug 31 01:37:40 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19558 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2000 08:37:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Aug 2000 08:37:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net) (199.45.39.156) by mta2 with SMTP; 31 Aug 2000 08:37:39 -0000 Received: from voyou (adsl-141-151-13-136.bellatlantic.net [141.151.13.136]) by smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id EAA13352 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 04:37:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <003701c01326$7ba882e0$aa45fea9@voyou> To: References: <8ol20p+gu2m@eGroups.com> <20000831035255.A13460@telenet.net> Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban nickname Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 04:35:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "David Twery" Well, it's nice to see that my ISP is ALMOST posting my e-mail in a timely fashion. (25 minutes is a lot better than "never".) At this rate, by the end of the year, Verizon will be able to post my mail *before* I compose it -- and pay ME! ----- Original Message ----- From: David Twery To: Sent: Thursday, 31 August 2000 04:10 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Garrett Jones > Sent: Thursday, 31 August 2000 03:38 > > > i want to make myself a lojban nickname. My normal internet nickname > > is "alkaline" (as in the battery), so i was thinking something along > > those lines. I looked through the gismu list and found a couple words > > that would be useful in a compound (lujvo?): > > > > jilka - alkali/base > > livla - energy source > > > > Now to combine them together, i assume you use the three letter forms > > of these words, but that comes out a little funny looking: "jillil". A > > few too many l's there. any solutions? > > Two consecutive same consonants are "illegal" in Lojban orthography. You can > fix these problems by adding a "verbal hyphen" -- y. > > jillil --> jilylil > > But you might want to go for a three-part cmene which avoids the y -- > > jildiclil > > jilka - alkali/base > dikca - electrical > livla - energy source > > This would also give a possible lujvo for an alkaline battery -- > jildiclivla. (I'd personally prefer "jilka cmadiclivla" -- alkaline > small-electrical-energy source). > And then there's ... ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Speer Sent: Thursday, 31 August 2000 03:52 > > > Well, for one thing, the 'll' definitely doesn't work in Lojban. You'd need to > separate them with a y. > > Putting this into jvocuhadju (jbofihe's lujvo-generating program) gives the > result of 'jilylivla', but that's because ordinary lujvo can't end in a vowel, > so presumably 'jilylil' would be the acceptable form for a name. Of course, > that still has the annoying l's. > > How about putting dikca (electric) after jilka? That'd give you 'jildic'. > -- > Rob Speer Yeah. What he said. zo'o je .uinai --d