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Re: [lojban-beginners] A string that ends with X



I'd say:
ko tercme lo panzi be do lo [valsi poi] se fanmo be lo karsna .i mu'ibo ca lo nu do krixa le cmene keiku ri  kakne vu se tirna

  The key is fanmo, which is the end of something (not always an event)

          --gejyspa


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:10 AM, mudri <jammyatjammy@gmail.com> wrote:
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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