Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:27:08 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199802091727.MAA01284@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: CloversImp@AOL.COM Sender: Lojban list From: Karen Stein Subject: Re: Names X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-UIDL: ab112ffe3818420007a05e3fbbe6195b X-Mozilla-Status: 8011 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Feb 09 13:49:34 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - > Words that end in consonants must be names, but the converse is not > true. Any brivla can be used as a name, so {la vlananla} is quite > acceptable (if unpronouncible). While I may have been mistaken about names having to end in consonants, I am fairly sure the only way to use a brivla as a name without this modification is to add the "la", thus "the ___" as in the above comment. I wrote this comment mostly to point out the "la" for any who might not realize the need for it. -- karis.