From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun May 27 15:44:51 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 27 May 2007 15:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HsRTn-0006Kb-Cm for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 15:44:51 -0700 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 1HsRTl-0006KS-2g for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 15:44:51 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BA3CE8B0 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 18:44:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojbanization Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 18:44:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <2f91285f0705230545h102beb4q6548c42b932bf299@mail.gmail.com> <3429e3e70705270956t3531519fodfdb0d94ea11b5f2@mail.gmail.com> <12d58c160705271005h3298895fvcc0f9c33bfbf6a67@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <12d58c160705271005h3298895fvcc0f9c33bfbf6a67@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705271844.45053.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: 5 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4739 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 Sunday 27 May 2007 13:05, komfo,amonan wrote: > On 5/27/07, zimmah wrote: > > can anyone tell me what would be the best lojbanisation for the names > > 'evelyne' (pronounced a bit like e-veh-leen) and 'zimri' (pronounced like > > zim-ree in english) > > I would say { .Evelin. } and { zimrit. }, assuming the latter is Semitic. > (If I need a final consonant, I tend to use 't' for Semitic names and 's' > for Indo-European names.) mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan I use 't' for Semitic feminine names, since 't' is a feminine suffix in Semitic and is also found in other Afro-Asiatic languages. For masculine names, I use 's' or 'x'. All the Zimris I found in the Bible are men, except the one in Jeremiah, which is a place. phma