From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Sat Aug 28 06:54:00 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41905.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.156]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C13eS-0005sZ-O3 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:53:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20040828135325.42268.qmail@web41905.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.43.213.208] by web41905.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:53:25 PDT Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:53:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: names of the elements To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <200408272104.18139.phma@phma.hn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 8563 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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 . I prefer 'x' because that makes it easier to figure out what the original was (you only need to consider the possibility of it being a glue consonant if it's an x, all other consonants you know come from the original) and also it makes it more likely that diferent people will come up with the same form independently, so you don't need to rely so much on one authoritative source. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail