From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Sep 29 08:05:03 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkKJ5-00043j-8J for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:05:03 -0700 Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.44.158]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkKJ0-00042N-S2 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:05:02 -0700 Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so336695yxp.46 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:04:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ivsg0HFqYMpvt2qUDqm2Pq10eOdgn+XJyNCqeseGCFA=; b=gFY/sdANtfS0EMYENZXGfxDyepXlV9htaKoBilDA0nlATAYxUw3UVx1lA3D9airkZ6 gT046NLTOw0St0aL+Qoe4xs97FqmetJ8aKC0D8iuRJDtxzuqE1trSSjepvJFGolE8CVc ot/FP9lO/8woekzRLJNtBydPAisRTVCv5GvcA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=GwzwZi0B0HDfgk6PX6kdsCrW/C0ji7YOVKBwdrug/lsonY8Zp/Z4f5V34eeA+Zu2t4 PBk4s4NjPuVBEcqeStgX1fRu9t8CbgxV+ni0awS7yL17BenTsBg7XHTFry9bH6blRxo9 jWbFA+aSZ3gTRVIDKwYnvnlJLq6W3P2EYnBAQ= Received: by 10.90.74.7 with SMTP id w7mr3224317aga.26.1222700697559; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.84.19 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5627810d0809290804t6dd010fas366c5998be5c91f9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:04:57 -0400 From: "Donald McLean" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban forms of names In-Reply-To: <925d17560809290745j4aac99bdqfc76f53438bb97a1@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Disposition: inline References: <5627810d0809290632u629019f9h654c8f96105a59d8@mail.gmail.com> <20080929141830.GA18902@sdf.lonestar.org> <5627810d0809290736y50db405cx3fc0e0be36a4387f@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560809290745j4aac99bdqfc76f53438bb97a1@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 899 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: dmclean62@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners I asked her and she said that she would rather drop the final vowel than add a consonant. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Donald McLean wrote: >> >> She's already miffed about losing the final vowel in her name. > > For names ending in a vowel, it's more common to add a consonant > (often -s, but any consonant will do) than dropping the vowel.