From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Sep 29 08:34:53 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkKlx-000637-5E for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:53 -0700 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkKlq-00062o-DN for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:53 -0700 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v33so1105957wah.2 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Eep7kc8uxxgtK668weWgJGgNdHDjr0ShGjcBd+0uhdY=; b=ghrlXw1cnl9Fq7ZqZXCB4k7UbVZjm8W+1eQ9PQOP1+IOZ0aT3L8gU+dGyukaqyn8jz bxO7fRIu6Rr9fL/PXcVzj9xTFILNK+Hx7tQYO0QWpFTdthrBrLeOOxacfjrqoAJ44WZR hpVuZbcLfscUGbBAlPJxvjKhbLu4XZ0irrt2s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=deVg21Pm/f4AKXH40/56dIae83eb0m2Uji9ZTGfScCWaQI032vdsr+i68gLUEJi5Dg VluHlIEOqRBsC6suvx632fTvD28MP+ihQndvEPF1tR/umd0YDVOHYdnJKiUwVFwLCYPX gHLL7gfGPE0tGs+sYg6Cq/t98UPr+WgLbE9cQ= Received: by 10.114.53.18 with SMTP id b18mr5911583waa.141.1222702485576; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.16.9 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f91285f0809290834y207ced27vd349dcfbc8cf27af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:34:45 +0200 From: tijlan To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban forms of names In-Reply-To: <925d17560809290745j4aac99bdqfc76f53438bb97a1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <5627810d0809290632u629019f9h654c8f96105a59d8@mail.gmail.com> <20080929141830.GA18902@sdf.lonestar.org> <5627810d0809290736y50db405cx3fc0e0be36a4387f@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560809290745j4aac99bdqfc76f53438bb97a1@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 900 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: picos.picos@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Donald McLean wrote: >> >> She's already miffed about losing the final vowel in her name. > > For names ending in a vowel, it's more common to add a consonant > (often -s, but any consonant will do) than dropping the vowel. Would it be not possible to use something like "-" as a consonant placeholder? Example: Angela --> la .andjela-. Antonio --> la .antonio-. mu'o mi'e tijlan