[lojban-beginners] Re: My Intro...with a request for help as a bonus.

["Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

On 9/26/07, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 20:51, Atomichron B wrote:
> > Hello, fellow Lojban Learners (or Lojban Experts; whatever). I'm Chelsea
> > and currently know English, German, and *un peu *French. And of course
> > learning Lojban is the next logical step... (Actually, I saw it on xkcd.
> > And I'm quite glad I did.) Languages are awesome, so I'm *really* trying to
> > learn this as well.
> >
> > However, I think I'm struggling with "Lojban for Beginners". A good sign? I
> > think not. I'm trying to work with the alphabet, and my first "exercise"
> > was to spell my name out...but does it actually look something like what
> > I've written below?
> >
> > cy. .y'y.bu. .ebu. ly. sy. .ebu. .abu.
> >
> > I think possibly the "h" is messing me up. Or something. Any help would be
> > great; thanks much!

Welcome, Chelsea! Glad to see you. We'll be happy to help.

Here is a hint to figure out this puzzle! The letters "c" "h" make the
CH sound in English. But there is no reason for this. The mouth does
not start with a "c" sound and transition into an "h" sound when it
creates a ch sound. What two sounds, when you put them one after
another, blend into that sound?

Second clue. English puts "e" in front of "a" and sometimes this makes
the ee sound. There is no reason for this. Lojban forms only one sound
per letter, and consistently uses only one spelling per sound.

There are six letters in the Lojbanized version of "Chelsea". Here is
your first challenge: what is the spelling?

-Eppcott

> You are correct. There is no 'h' in Lojban, so the name for it is formed by
> adding {bu} to the name of the apostrophe. The other two Latin letters not
> used in Lojban are named similarly: {kybu} and {vybu}.

Pierre,
You probably meant to type {wybu}, not {vybu}.
-Eppcott