[lojban-beginners] Re: lojbanization

["Philip Newton" <philip.newton@gmail.com>]

On 5/23/07, komfo,amonan <komfoamonan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps there ought to be a natlang-Lojban phoneme mapping system for names.

It'd be ahead of English, which has semi-standardised transliterations
for some languages, but you still get "Muhammad" vs. "Mohammed", etc.

Not to mention that then you'd have to worry about dialects -- would
it be acceptable to use a one-size-fits-all mapping from, say, Greek
for the name of someone who pronounces his name in his native dialect
not with /dz/ (as in "adze") but with /dZ/ (as in "edge") instead? In
which case, {la .opuDJIS.} would arguably be better than the {la
.opuDZIS.} you'd probably get from a standardised,
based-on-the-standard-dialect, mapping.

mu'o mi'e .filip.