From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 08 15:21:46 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GhwjV-0005kK-JX for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:21:25 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GhwjV-0005kD-8i for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:21:25 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:21:25 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "la" in names Message-ID: <20061108232125.GV32108@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 12955 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 07:08:56AM -0500, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > Join the club. I'd like to be able to say my name in Lojban > ("laitl"), but it's not legal after "la". In current Lojban it's not legal *at all*, after la or otherwise. *However*, that didn't stop it from getting into a *published Lojban book*, despite it being written by the most fluent speaker at the time, and being proofread by most of the best Lojbanists at the time: http://lojban.org/publications/level0/brochure-utf/pref.html Search for "laitl". .i ji'a pe'i le me zo la javni cu nitcu co se daspo -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.