Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Saturday 05 January 2008 11:14, Robert LeChevalier wrote:Because Moscow was named by the Russians, the best Lojbanization would be based on the Russian pronunciation of the name - thus probably "la mozgvas" or "la moskfas" would be desireable, but lose visual recognition. "la moskuas" seems like a reasonable compromise. The name of the country clearly should be "la rosi,as" (which is pronounced as you have written rosIas).According to the syllabication rules which Jorge and I have been discussing, which we don't agree on but which we agree on about this word, {mozgvas} and {moskfas} are invalid, because a syllable can neither end with "zg" or "sk" nor begin with "gv" or "kf".
There is no official restriction that I know of, and changes in the morphology are not part of the byfy charter at this point.
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