From robin@bilkent.edu.tr Mon Apr 28 05:02:16 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19A7Kp-0002Mq-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:02:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C6832045 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:01:39 +0300 (EEST) Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.97.69]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED8B31ECF for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:01:38 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3EAD1809.2050406@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:01:13 +0300 From: robin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: mi tadni la lojban References: <1051407312.9517@mailserver120.sectorlink.com> <1051453449.1582@mailserver120.sectorlink.com> <1051496765.20227@mailserver120.sectorlink.com> In-Reply-To: <1051496765.20227@mailserver120.sectorlink.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 X-archive-position: 263 X-Approved-By: robin@bilkent.edu.tr X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Bruce Webber wrote: > > G Dyke wrote: > >> >> Bruce Webber wrote: >> >>> >>> I've recently begun learning Lojban, using the Lojban for Beginner's >>> text and the LogFlash program. I don't have any questions for the >>> group yet, but rather than lurk, I thought I'd say hi. >>> >> uisai fi'i doi bris i sarcu fa lenu do cuxna lo lojbo cmene kei mu'i >> ledu'u zo brus .e zo bris na drani >> >> mu'o mi'e greg > > > Greg, > > Thanks for your reply and your assistance. Here is my translation of > what you wrote: > > "Very happy you're here, welcome, Bruce. It's necessary that you chose > some lojbanic name because 'brus' and 'bris' are not proper." > > Assuming I understood what you wrote correctly, I'm not sure why > "brus" is not proper. Does it have to do with the "b" and "r" next to > each other (voiced and unvoiced consonants)? If it's not proper, I > would lojbanize my middle name "David" and use that. I would say: > > ki'e .i zo deivyd cmene mi mu'i zo brus. na drani > I can't see anything wrong with brus. BR is a permissable initial consonant pair, the word ends in a consonant, and it doesn't contain "la" or "doi". Looks like a perfectly good cmene to me. robin.tr -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin