But since Cosby is concerned with your voice carry, selpa'i, a vowel sound IS what is intended, not the vowel letter. You can name them Margot,for example...
--gejyspa
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:41 PM, selpa'i
<m3o@plasmatix.com> wrote:
la mudri cu cusku di'e
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'd say:
ko ro roi tercme lo do panzi da poi lo karsnale'u cu ro moi lo ke'a lerfu .i se va'o bo lo cmene ca lo nu se krixa cu xamgu se tirna
"Always call your child something which has a vowel letter as its last letter. Then, when you yell it, the name will be better heard."
Or, in a more relaxed style:
ko ro roi selfamgau lo cmene pe lo do panzi lu'e lo karsna
"Always have the name of your child end with a vowel."
The techcicality here is that a string of letters or a word does not end with a sound, it ends with a letter representing that sound. One can choose to ignore this (remove the lu'e) or not (keep the lu'e).
mu'o mi'e la selpa'i
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