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From: "Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: pronunciation
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la .aleks. cu cusku di'e
> On Jun 21, 2006, at 5:39 AM, Newton, Philip wrote:
> 
> > mu'o mi'e .filip.
>             ^ is the stop before your name needed, when it
> doesn't start with a vowel?

The stop is indeed needed; names end (IIRC) with a consonant followed by
stop and go backwards until you reach one of {la} {lai} {doi} or stop.

So in {la .filip.} the stop at the beginning is optional, since {la}
precedes it and that cannot be part of the name anyway, but after COI
(including {mi'e}), the stop is necessary to stop the utterance from being
interpreted as the single cmevla {mu'omi'efilip.} (which is a valid name).

If you put spaces in writing (as pretty much everyone does), you can
possibly dispense with the {.}; I'm not sure of the rules which govern this.
I like to write it anyway. (Just as I often write a {.} before a cmevla and
after {la} in my email introduction {la .mupl. cu cusku di'e} -- not
necessary, and redundant, but not wrong, as I understand it.)

doi la .xorxes. .a la .camgusmis. do'u denpa bu cu jai sarcu fi ma

mu'o mi'e .filip.