[lojban-beginners] Hello

["Kio M. Smallwood" <sekenre@ukfsn.org>]

Hello,

I am living in the Central Belt in Scotland, myself and several of my friends 
are interested in learning lojban. I have all of the teaching materials and I 
managed to find the Linux version of LogFlash (which works very well thanks!)

My first questions are;

--	How do you pronounce the lojban letter "y"? The examples given in the 
beginners book seem dependent on one's accent on how the sound is pronounced.

--	Are there other jbopli in Scotland? Or people interested in learning?

--	I tried to find the Audio files mentioned on the website, but was 
unsuccessful. What does lojban sound like?

--	Has there been any effort to make systematic lojbanic names for scientific 
terms (eg chemical names) that do not use only the latin (or greek) roots? 
For example, SF author Poul Anderson created a terminology of chemistry and 
nuclear physics using only Celtic and Norse roots, called "Uncleftish 
Beholding". Is there, or should there be, a similar effort for lojban?

--	Is the following a good translation of my name?
	curves cmaricfois
	<purity small-tree-field>
	Kio Smallwood

In answer to Hal Fulton's question,
> One thing I'm wondering about is how to lojbanise my name
> (Hal Fulton). I've considered several cmene:
> 
>    la 'al         (acceptable?)
>    la xal         (an alternative, I guess)
>    la 'al.fultyn  (first and last)
>    la 'al.soki'os (HAL 9000)
> 
I like "la xal" best since this is how a Spanish person would say it. In 
Spanish, it is not common to start words with just the breathy English "h" 
sound. I gather that it is not common in other languages either, so they 
would find "xal" easier to say than "'al"

Thanks for your attention,
Kio

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