[lojban-beginners] Re: mi tadni la lojban

[G Dyke <gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch>]

> > >
> > uisai fi'i doi bris i sarcu fa lenu do cuxna lo lojbo cmene kei mu'i 
> > ledu'u zo brus .e zo bris na drani
> >
> > mu'o mi'e greg
>
>
> Greg,
>
> Thanks for your reply and your assistance. Here is my translation of 
> what you wrote:
>
> "Very happy you're here, welcome, Bruce. It's necessary that you chose 
> some lojbanic name because 'brus' and 'bris' are not proper."
>
> Assuming I understood what you wrote correctly, I'm not sure why 
> "brus" is not proper. Does it have to do with the "b" and "r" next to 
> each other (voiced and unvoiced consonants)? If it's not proper, I 
> would lojbanize my middle name "David" and use that. I would say:
>
> ki'e .i zo deivyd cmene mi mu'i zo brus. na drani
Sorry for the confusion I caused. I just felt like writing some lojban 
at the time, but couldn't remember how to say "sound". I also didn't 
phrase the whole thing too well. I was actually remarking that both 
{brus} and {bris} bear little ressemblence to the English pronunciation 
of the name.

In fact, your translation of what I said is better than my intended 
meaning :-|

mu'o mi'e greg