From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jul 15 06:01:04 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G1jlY-00064s-O3 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:01:04 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G1jlX-00064a-Cs for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:01:04 -0700 Received: from [192.168.25.19] (unknown [192.168.25.19]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545EBCE459 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:00:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: making a cmene Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:45:21 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <925d17560607101357j486c2983y3935845796dde5b4@mail.gmail.com> <3e3b81fd0607150210u792c861fk67f8cbae411fe9df@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3e3b81fd0607150210u792c861fk67f8cbae411fe9df@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607150845.23233.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 3426 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Saturday 15 July 2006 05:10, Earth Engine wrote: > Shanghai -> canhais. > Guangzhou -> guandjo,us. > > Is these cneme correct? Neither is a well-formed word. {'} (occasionally written "h") does not occur next to a consonant, and {ndj} is a forbidden triple. I'd say {canxais}; for Guangzhou you could either insert a pause, {guan.djo,us}, or drop the {d}. Not sure whether to drop the {u}, as {ou} is two syllables in Lojban but only one in Chinese. phma