From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jul 06 13:39:24 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DqGg0-0000g9-3W for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:39:24 -0700 Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([212.104.129.89]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DqGfr-0000fz-NH for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:39:23 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF274061A5 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:39:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09911-01-36 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:39:12 +0100 (BST) Received: from [82.152.43.82] (unknown [82.152.43.82]) by mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35836406128 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:39:12 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42CC4278.8070604@happyvalley.eclipse.co.uk> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:43:36 +0000 From: Jon Reeves User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: mi'e ZAkyri. mi cnino References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.1 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1554 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org 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: jon@happyvalley.eclipse.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Hi Zachary, I'm a bit of a lojban butcher myself, always good to see someone new joining - helps to motivate me to do more About your name, or the cmene thereof - I believe cmene need to end in a consonant, normally an s is added, or the final vowel dropped, but you can do what ever you want eg, ZAkyr, or ZAKyris Also, stress in lojban falls on the penultimate syllable, so you have capitalised the first syllable to make that the stressed one - however I seem to recall that the schwa 'y' doesnt count, so the stress would be on the first syllable anyway - can someone else confirm this? Best of luck djon. Zachary wrote: > Well, I'm new to the list, so I thought I'd go ahead and introduce > myself. Currently I've read the tutorial up to the possesives > section, but I'd rather not torture you guys with simple, and yet > butchered, lojban bridi. Please do correct me, in the inevitable > event that I should butcher some lojban. I'm here to learn! > > So...hi! > > > > >