[lojban-beginners] A string that ends with X

[mudri <jammyatjammy@gmail.com>]

I'm trying to translate this Bill Cosby quote: "Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.".

I've got this far with it: {ko tercme lo panzi be do ko'a mu'i lo du'u tirna lo nu do kirxa ko'a}. The bit I'm missing is the {goi} phrase for that first {ko'a}.

One of my ideas is to have something like {lo se romoi be lo karsna}, but PAmoi2 is a set (obviously), so that sumti, in this context, would refer to a set of names (like first name, middle name and surname), the last of which is a single vowel. Clearly that's not what I want.

Is there any way to refer to the string made up from a set of characters? That would make the above sumti work. I also thought of a way to make it work with the opposite operation (getting the characters from a given string), using something beginning with {da poi lo karsna cu romoi lo broda be ke'a}. I'm not saying that it would be a selbri like that; I just wanted the surrounding structure to be obvious and grammatical.

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