[lojban-beginners] Re: How to say "good bye"

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 01:10 PM 5/23/03 -0400, Benjamin Esham wrote:
> On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 12:56  PM, qbradley wrote:
>
> > I would still like help "lojban"izing my last name: Bradley.
> >
> > Can you even make the right kind of A sound for Bradley?
> >
> > bradli would sound like "broad-ly" wouldn't it?
>
> It's true that the a sound in your name doesn't exist in Lojban.  The 
> closest you can get is {a}.

Some people, especially those (British?) whose "a" is less frontal, would 
prefer an {e} for the sound, at which point, he can choose between closer 
sound or closer spelling.

>   {bradli} is a good lojbanization, except that names cannot end with 
> vowels.  Most people add an {s} to the end of the word to make it a 
> proper cmene: {bradlis.}.

There is no obligation to choose "s".  Any other consonant is equally fine, 
so choose aesthetically.

lojbab

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