From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Sep 29 07:21:57 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkJdN-0001FC-0v for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:21:57 -0700 Received: from charon.blackpool.gov.uk ([195.188.21.13]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkJdF-0001EQ-Gu for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:21:56 -0700 Received: from [10.88.101.2] by [10.2.2.200] with StormMail ESMTP id 23932.523243490; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:30:28 +0100 (BST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban forms of names Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:21:38 +0100 Message-ID: <9DE5DB0988ED6C448E606734F5030D381A94133D@bbcmbmx01.blackpool.gov.uk> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban forms of names thread-index: AckiPnkhct3v8ri4QQmDw6785pVKrQAACpLA From: "Michael Eaton" To: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 891 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: michael.eaton@blackpool.gov.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Do you mean something similar to how Xavier should be pronounced? -----Original Message----- From: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org]On Behalf Of Minimiscience Sent: 29 September 2008 15:19 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban forms of names de'i li 29 pi'e 09 pi'e 2008 la'o fy. Donald McLean .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > One of my children has a name that starts with an 'H'. As near as I > can tell, the only use of this sound in Lojban is the apostrophe to > separate two vowels. What, then are the most common approaches for > handling this situation when converting names? .skamyxatra An 'H' at the beginning of a name is almost always Lojbanized into an 'x', which makes the sound of a voiced 'H' (the sound doesn't naturally exist in English, so I'm not sure how best to explain it). mu'omi'e la'o gy. Minimiscience .gy. -- do ganai ka'e tcidu dei gi djuno lo dukse This email has been scanned in accordance with the council's published policies Email Disclaimer is: http://www.blackpool.gov.uk/EmailDisclaimer/ This message has been scanned for inappropriate or malicious content as part of the Council's e-mail and internet policy.