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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to say "good bye"
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert LeChevalier" <lojbab@lojban.org>
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 7:27 PM
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to say "good bye"


> At 01:10 PM 5/23/03 -0400, Benjamin Esham wrote:
> >On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 12:56  PM, qbradley wrote:
> >
> >>I would still like help "lojban"izing my last name: Bradley.
> >>
> >>Can you even make the right kind of A sound for Bradley?
> >>
> >>bradli would sound like "broad-ly" wouldn't it?
> >
> >It's true that the a sound in your name doesn't exist in Lojban.  The
> >closest you can get is {a}.
>
> Some people, especially those (British?) whose "a" is less frontal, would
> prefer an {e} for the sound, at which point, he can choose between closer
> sound or closer spelling.
>
> >   {bradli} is a good lojbanization, except that names cannot end with
> > vowels.  Most people add an {s} to the end of the word to make it a
> > proper cmene: {bradlis.}.
>
> There is no obligation to choose "s".  Any other consonant is equally
fine,
> so choose aesthetically.
>
>

I'd choose "c", as it's the closest consonant in articulation to
"i"...bradlic.