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

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

On 9/28/07, Atomichron B <atomichron@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks so much for the quick response!
>
> Okay, so I'm trying it out once more...and thinking about the sounds more
> than the individual letters helped me out quite a bit, I think.
>
> ty., cy., .ebu, ly., sy., .ibu.
>
> Is that a bit closer?
>
> - Chelsea

You have it precisely!
-Eppcott

>
> On 9/27/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/27/07, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 9/27/07, Marjorie Scherf <mls1@rice.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Also, I think CLL recommends {vy.bu} to name the alien letter 'w'.
> > >
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > > ...
> > > > However, it is at times unfortunate that
> > > > it is illegal in fu'ivla because I was trying to make one for kazoo,
> and
> > > > zgikrkazu sounds a little strange to someone used to hearing kazoo
> with the
> > > > stress on the first of those two syllables.
> > >
> > > You can make it {zgikrkazu'u} if you want to keep the original stress.
> > >
> > > mu'o mi'e xorxes
> >
> >
> > This is the beginners mailing list. A lot of beginners will usually
> > talk about letters and characters, but that is a discussion which we
> > will have with them in English. I don't think very many beginners are
> > going to speak in Lojban to describe unused characters. It sounds like
> > a good topic to take up on the main mailing list.
> >
> > -Eppcott
> >
> >
> >
> >
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