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

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

qbradley wrote:
> > --- Joe <joe@wantage.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'd choose "c", as it's the closest consonant in
> > > articulation to
> > > "i"...bradlic.
> >
> > Wouldn't that be pronounced "Bradleash"?
>
>
> Actually, more like "broad" - "leash"
>
> Realizing that the "a" sound in my name is not pronouncable in lojban, I've settled for:
>
> bradlif
>
> which sounds like "broad" - "leaf" 
>
> because it sounds nice :-)

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").

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).

robin.tr (and that's not a cmene, BTW, though I suppose it could be if 
it had an extra dot at the end)


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Robin Turner
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