From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: My Intro...with a request for help as a bonus.
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:52:53 -0400
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On Wednesday 26 September 2007 20:51, Atomichron B wrote:
> Hello, fellow Lojban Learners (or Lojban Experts; whatever). I'm Chelsea
> and currently know English, German, and *un peu *French. And of course
> learning Lojban is the next logical step... (Actually, I saw it on xkcd.
> And I'm quite glad I did.) Languages are awesome, so I'm *really* trying to
> learn this as well.
>
> However, I think I'm struggling with "Lojban for Beginners". A good sign? I
> think not. I'm trying to work with the alphabet, and my first "exercise"
> was to spell my name out...but does it actually look something like what
> I've written below?
>
> cy. .y'y.bu. .ebu. ly. sy. .ebu. .abu.
>
> I think possibly the "h" is messing me up. Or something. Any help would be
> great; thanks much!

You are correct. There is no 'h' in Lojban, so the name for it is formed by 
adding {bu} to the name of the apostrophe. The other two Latin letters not 
used in Lojban are named similarly: {kybu} and {vybu}.

Next, if you say your name in Lojban, how would you spell that?

Pierre