The apostrophe is not quite as absurd as the comma, because it is pronounced. So {la meri'} would sound different from {la meri}, but close enough to be a far better approximation than {la meris}
I'm lucky enough that my name ends with a consonant. My wife and daughter, though, are not, and I have the idea of modifying their names.
On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Elmo Todurov wrote:
Yoav Nir wrote:Vice versa. I tried to produce an absurd analogy. "," is syllable/ diphtong separator. It's pretty nonsensical (IMHO) to try to separate something from something which does not exist.I have no problem with that, but it's not a regular consonant.I'm all for allowing anything that would better align lojban names with a person's real name (in their native language). But how does the apostrophe help? How would you pronounce it? As Elmo said, why not allow also the comma? I think that's very useful, as then we can have {la meri,} which is closer to "Mary" then {la meiris}The pause is exactly the same kind of nonsense -- you have to add a pause after a name anyway, so adding TWO pauses would be .. well, nonsense.