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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:53:05 +0300
From: Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>
Subject: Re: cecla fanta flalu
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la mark. cusku di'e

> >
> >vi frili fa lenu terve'u lo cecla .i ku'i pe'i loi prenu pe la turkie
>                                                                 ^^^^^^
> Back at my old job.  Cmene alert!

??  {prenu} is a cmene?  Presumably the spacing has come out strange;
{turkie} should have been {turkies} or something like that.  I normally use
a fu'ivla like {gugdrturkie}, {kulnrturkie}.  Incidentally, I've Lojbanised
"Turkey" like this because

  - {turki} can't be a fu'ivla because it has CVCCV structure.
  - the name of the country is "Türkiye", which by strict Lojbanisation
would be {TIRki,ie} which is orthographically unhelpful.  {turkie} comes
close enough to some pronunciations, and is easier to recognise for Turks
and non-Turks alike (reverse the last two letters and you get the German,
for example).

co'o mi'e robin.