[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban forms of names

[tijlan <picos.picos@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:37 PM, james riley <jimr1603@gmail.com> wrote:
> But how would you pronounce it? The Audio-Visual Isomorphism is important.
> If you suggest a consonant to be the placeholder, then we already have 's'
> by convention.
>
> mu'o mi'e cmacis
>
>
>

The reader/speaker chooses the consonant. We already have such a
shceme where /r/ can be either [r], [Ê], [É], [É], [Ê], [É], [Ê], or
[É], for instance. So why not having a rule by which to interpret /-/
as any legal Lojban consonants? The idea is to be able to preserve, to
make distinguishable, the original form of a name as much as possible.


mu'e mi'e tijlan