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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to say "good bye"
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:57:25 -0700
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> It does, and bilingual punning is a feature of lobykulnu. I'm not sure 
> if Lojban "a" is much like the "oa" of "broad", but that depends on how 
> you say "broad". Mu "broad" would come out something like "broyd".  I 
> was once surprised when someone suggested that the best way to lojbanise 
> my name was "rabn.", until I realised the difference between US and UK 
> pronuciation (I stick with "robin.", even though that comes out more 
> like "row-bin").

Oh good, it isn't just me :-)  is lobykulnu a lujvo or tanru or something else?  I found kulnu easily in the online dictionary but had to search for "loby", loby and lob both come up empty on the dictionary, but I found "lojbo" has a "lob" rafsi, so I'm guysing loby comes from lojbo.. please elucidate for me.

rabn is exactly how it is pronounced around here, wouldn't "robin" in lojban be pronounced "row-bean"?

I looked up the pronunciation of "broad" in a dictionary and it said "brod" (with a little hat over the o), which is the same sound in my last name in english.  I'm still trying to imagine how exactly you pronounce broad :-)

> If I were desgning the ulitimate conlang (something like Marain in Iain 
> Banks' novels) then I'd have every shade of vowel and a range of 
> aspirated consonants (as in Sanskrit).  Unfortunately, practical 
> considerations get in the way -  Lojban is hard enough from a 
> grammatical/perceptual point of view, without introducing a complex 
> phonology. This eans, unfortunately, that cmene will always involve a 
> degree of compromise (zo'o except for Italians).

Would everyone have to pronounce the shades exactly correctly? :-)

co'o

keitsyl bradlif