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[lojban-beginners] Re: grand mother



what a mouth-full.  So what would be the closest lojban equivalent to "granny".  I can't see a kid of 4 or 5 running up and saying "coi lo mamymamta" :)  It is fun verbally spelling it out though (like spelling out Mississippi).

- Luke Bergen


On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com> wrote:
de'i li 18 pi'e 01 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Luke Bergen .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> For grandfathers you could have pafpa'u and mampa'u but there is no rafsi for
> "mother" that ends in a vowel so can it be done without having the much
> longer sounding pafmamta.
.skamyxatra

No.

> And in the case of maternal grand mother the situation is even worse since
> you can't double consonants (eg mammamta).

A "y" is inserted wherever a double consonant would otherwise occur in {lujvo}
formation; hence, "{mamymamta}."

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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