[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban forms of names

["Donald McLean" <dmclean62@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com> wrote:
> de'i li 29 pi'e 09 pi'e 2008 la'o fy. Donald McLean .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
>> One of my children has a name that starts with an 'H'. As near as I
>> can tell, the only use of this sound in Lojban is the apostrophe to
>> separate two vowels. What, then are the most common approaches for
>> handling this situation when converting names?
> .skamyxatra
>
> An 'H' at the beginning of a name is almost always Lojbanized into an 'x',
> which makes the sound of a voiced 'H' (the sound doesn't naturally exist in
> English, so I'm not sure how best to explain it).

I lived in Germany for two years so I am actually familiar with the sound.

I don't think that my daughter is going to like that answer though.
She's already miffed about losing the final vowel in her name.

Thank you,

Donald