[lojban-beginners] Re: More talk about name rules

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

Matt Arnold wrote:
> Is it legal to have three vowels in a row in a cmene? Stuart, from
> Great Britain, has been asking morphology questions in the comments to
> the Lojban blog:
> http://community.livejournal.com/lojban/19506.html
>
> Stuart says:
> "I mostly speak that less popular version of English spoken in
> England, so pronounce my name with the "u" as in "you" and the "ar" as
> a schwa - the "r" disappears completely. So to pronounce it in Lojban
> as I do in English, I need the three Lojban vowels iuy. Is that not
> possible?"

Three vowels in a row are allowed in both cmevla and fu'ivla. Only two 
vowels can be in a syllable, though. So {stiuyt} is pronounced {stiu,yt}.

As an example of a fu'ivla, I recently wrote {xaldaio} for "Chaldean".

phma