From robin@bilkent.edu.tr Wed Apr 23 10:03:49 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 198Ner-0006gD-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:03:46 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE01331F01 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:03:10 +0300 (EEST) Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp102.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.102]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AC2231ECF for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:03:09 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3EA72A9E.70706@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:06:54 -0400 From: "robin.bcc" 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: A Newbie's First Impressions References: <20030423135718.40722.qmail@web13001.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030423135718.40722.qmail@web13001.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 X-archive-position: 239 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 Travis Garris wrote: >>From Jon: > > "Well, nis. is pronounced as neice, there are no > silent letters in lojban." > > I didn't realize this. I was pronouncing "klaudias." > as Claudia, not Claudias. I guess "porcys." would > sound like you owned more than one to the > English-speakers. It's a matter of taste whether you Lojbanise names by dropping the final vowel or adding a final consonant (BTW, the consonant doesn't have to be "s" - a lot of people go for "n"). I used both methods in the examples, and in this case it seemed better to drop the "e", since "porc" is distinctive enough, and in any case, a lot of people mispronounce the word that way. 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