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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: End vowel for slot?
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 08:00:55 -0400
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On Saturday, August 23, 2014 17:00:46 Alex Richmond wrote:
> This makes me wonder, do the few people that speak Lojban ever tend to skip
> the last vowel of popular selbri? For instance, do they ever say {pend}
> instead of {pendo}, or {pram} instead of {prami}?

The only time I do that is in the song "There was an old woman who swallowed a 
fly", and even then you can tell that ".i mutce se xrani" is not ".i mutco se 
xranu".

> I would imagine that people who have been speaking/listening awhile might
> elide them sometimes. {ma cmen do} is one example that I could imagine
> hearing

I'd answer "macmendo ki'a".

Pierre
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