Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:32:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199802112232.RAA13502@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Colin Fine Sender: Lojban list From: Colin Fine Subject: Re: Names X-To: Lojban list To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <887044336.0913113.0@listserv.cuny.edu> X-UIDL: 59cb0a5580917a1491ea3fe8edc7441f Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 8011 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Feb 17 10:09:07 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - vecu'u le notci po'u <887044336.0913113.0@listserv.cuny.edu> la Karen Stein cu cusku di'e >> 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. or 'doi' -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Colin Fine 66 High Ash, Shipley, W Yorks. BD18 1NE, UK | | Tel: 01274 592696/0976 635354 e-mail: colin@kindness.demon.co.uk | | "Don't just do something! Stand there!" | | - from 'Behold the Spirit' (workshop) | -----------------------------------------------------------------------