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Date:         Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:23:34 BG
Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@BGEARN.ACAD.BG>
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From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@BGEARN.ACAD.BG>
Subject:      Re: 2Re: CPE: la DAOdeiJIN
To: Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>
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(Shouldn't that be {-djin}, btw, rather than {-jin}?  It's an affricate.)

On Sun, 10 Dec 1995 18:14:37 -0600 Steve Hazel said:
>i forgot that "ao" was an invalid diphthong
>i guess "da'os" or "dau" would be the proper lojban form of the name.

It's a single syllable in Chinese, so it should be one in Lojban also.
Thus {dau} rather than {da'o}.

(Add any consonant or consonant cluster to the end to make it a cmene
-- preferably something that doesn't occur in syllable-final position
in Chinese, so that it will be immediately identified as a cmenifier.
That means anything other than {-n} and {-ng}.  I suppose {-s} is OK;
I wonder, though, if the final could be chosen depending on the tone,
so that it won't be lost in the lojbanisation.)

Anyway, what is wrong with {la daj.}?  Aren't {CVC} rafsi a standard
source of cmene?

--Ivan