From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Dec 06 09:36:50 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:36:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gs0hO-00008l-4u for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:36:50 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gs0hI-00008X-GJ for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:36:49 -0800 Received: from [192.168.7.3] (unknown [192.168.7.3]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E95FCE770 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:36:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4576FF79.6010903@phma.optus.nu> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:35:53 -0500 From: Pierre Abbat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: More talk about name rules References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) X-archive-position: 3816 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 Matt Arnold wrote: > Is it legal to have three vowels in a row in a cmene? Stuart, from > Great Britain, has been asking morphology questions in the comments to > the Lojban blog: > http://community.livejournal.com/lojban/19506.html > > Stuart says: > "I mostly speak that less popular version of English spoken in > England, so pronounce my name with the "u" as in "you" and the "ar" as > a schwa - the "r" disappears completely. So to pronounce it in Lojban > as I do in English, I need the three Lojban vowels iuy. Is that not > possible?" Three vowels in a row are allowed in both cmevla and fu'ivla. Only two vowels can be in a syllable, though. So {stiuyt} is pronounced {stiu,yt}. As an example of a fu'ivla, I recently wrote {xaldaio} for "Chaldean". phma