From rob@twcny.rr.com Sat Sep 01 22:18:25 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@telenet.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 2 Sep 2001 05:18:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 39654 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2001 05:18:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Sep 2001 05:18:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO telenet.net) (204.97.152.225) by mta2 with SMTP; 2 Sep 2001 05:18:24 -0000 Received: from riff (ip-209-23-14-24.modem.logical.net [209.23.14.24]) by telenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA07048 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 01:18:22 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15dPdt-0000LN-00 for ; Sun, 02 Sep 2001 01:17:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 01:17:56 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] klanrvolti Message-ID: <20010902011756.A1308@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <0109012211540N.01089@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0109012211540N.01089@neofelis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com Sender: Rob Speer From: Rob Speer X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 10393 On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:11:54PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > Shouldn't that be {klanrvolta}? It is, after all, named for Alessandro Volta. > > {klanrdjuli} cracked me up. It sounds like an amount of jelly. But then the > English word sounds like a jadro'i. I go by the convention that if there's no final vowel inherent in the word, I use the final vowel of the gismu that the fu'ivla classifier came from - in most cases, the "i" in {klani}. "Volt", I admit, pretty much does have an inherent "a" due to "Volta", so I'll change that on the Wiki. What's wrong with {klanrdjuli}? Should it only be {klanrjuli}? Or should the unpronounced "e" still become the final vowel? -- Rob Speer