From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 08 20:50:23 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:50:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gi1rY-0003CX-Kq for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:50:04 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gi1rY-0003CQ-Aq for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:50:04 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 20:50:04 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "la" in names Message-ID: <20061109045003.GF23121@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 12968 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:34:08AM +0300, Yanis Batura wrote: > I am absolutely sure that a native Lojban speaker will have the > rule comfortly sitting in his/her brain. I am absolutely sure that > given a good special training we will all internalize this rule. I utterly disagree. More to the point, there is *no evidence* for your view, and lots for mine. > > A rule we can't follow that, in the not-following, breaks > > audio-visual isomorphism is, to me, a total travesty of one of > > the most important goals of the language. Whether someone gets > > to use the "la" sound in their name or not is totally irrelevant > > to my concerns. We're *breaking the language*, and it has to > > stop. > > Your suggestions? (sorry if I missed something back from 2005 :) Pauses before all names. http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=The%20Case%20Against%20LA -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.