From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Fri Aug 27 18:04:56 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.189.121.177] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0reC-0003YU-CV for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:04:48 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BF3A74B1C; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:04:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] names of the elements Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:04:17 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408272104.18139.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8559 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list When I wrote le dikni cartu be le selratni, for those element names that are type-3 fu'ivla where the foreign part begins with a vowel, I more often than not picked a consonant that occurs in the foreign part (e.g. jinmrtiterbi). Nick prefers using 'x' as the consonant regardless of what the foreign part is. What do the rest of you prefer? It's at http://phma.hn.org/Language/selratni.html . phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa