[lojban-beginners] Re: lojbanization

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

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 14:02, Vid Sintef wrote:
> True!
> I think {sidbrxolona}, {sidbrxoloni}, and {sidbrxolonu} are also valid
> according to the Book.
> You say "opinions"; could you tell me some of that differing criteria?

Some people like to use the vowel that was dropped from the gismu as the last 
vowel of the fu'ivla, or repeat the previous vowel of the fu'ivla as the 
last. In this case, those would both result in {sidbrxolono}. The others are 
also valid, as you figured out.

I'm not sure whether the final "n" should be dropped or not. It depends on 
whether Koestler was thinking "το ολον, του ολου" (just the neuter form 
of "holos") or "ο ολων, του ολωνος" (adding a suffix). In the former case I 
would drop it; in the latter I would not.

When lojbanizing a Latin word ending in "-us" or "-um", those being the second 
declension ending, the "s" or "m" is dropped. The vowel may be left as "u" or 
changed to "o" (which is the corresponding ending in several Romance 
languages). I don't consistently do it either way. I came up with {trixexu} 
for "manatee", someone else said {trixexo}, and I consider them both valid 
variants.

Pierre