[lojban-beginners] Re: cmevla-final apostrophe

["Michael Turniansky" <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Jan 17, 2008 5:00 AM,  <mungojelly@ixkey.info> wrote:

> I also would like to say in reference to the matter of having to end
> names on a consonant, that there appears to be a strong (if informal &
> optional) tradition here in Lojbanistan of using "s" as the default
> consonant [ka'u] for vowel-ending names.  It's my feeling that to a
> Lojbanic ear, an "s" at the end of a name sounds special, because we
> know it often has that origin.  My handle for many years has been
> Mungojelly (part of my Discordian holy name "Pope Salmon the Lesser
> Mungojelly"), which is Lojbanized as "la mungodjelis."  I'm happy to
> accept my "s", and to participate in this Lojbanic tradition [.o'a].
> (I would like to hear what the origin of it is, if anyone knows?)
>

  I can't tell you the why, but I can tell that it goes all the way
back to the earliest days of Loglan.  JCB tended to add s to names
derived from other languages, and -n to names derived from Loglanish
words (like the days of the week, and months of the year, and the sun
and moon). (I studied Loglan back in the mid 70s)

               --gejyspa