Message-Id: <199709170104.UAA00865@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: HACKER G N Date: Tue Sep 16 20:05:15 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: HACKER G N Subject: Re: "lojbab" X-To: John Cowan X-cc: Lojban List To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <0EGM008JO98R8H@newcastle.edu.au> X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 803 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Sep 16 20:05:15 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, John Cowan wrote: > And Rosta wrote: > > > To non-North Americans, of course, [Bob's] name rhymes with > > "cab" rather than with "cob", and had it been us who had nicknamed > > you you would have become "Lojbob". > > Have you perhaps reversed "cab" and "cob" here? Bob himself, > being from California, speaks the version of American that unrounds > all low vowels: "law" is /lA/. To non-north Americans, "Bob" rhymes with "cob", but the non-north American "o" sound is way closer to a Lojban "o" than it is to Lojban "a"; the latter sound would seem to be spelt like "ar" or "ah" to us. So we would have Lojbanised his name to "lojbob" rather than "lojbab". Our English spelling for the Lojban word "lojbab" would presumably be something like "lozhbub"! :) Regards, Geoff