Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojban for beginners

[Matthew Walton <matthew@matthew-walton.co.uk>]

On 20 October 2010 18:55, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I usually pronounce Robert as rab,rt as the CLL suggests.  Maybe someone
> from the UK can give input on the pronunciation there.

Over here you hear robyt and robyrt, depending on accent. I wouldn't
be at all surprised if other Brits could come up with other variants
as well.

>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Albano Cruz <3dtreboles@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi to all...
>>
>> I've started the translation into Spanish of "Lojban for beginners", and I
>> just encountered my first doubt. The following paragraph contains yhe
>> lojbanization of the nam Robert:
>>
>> - - -
>> The final point is stress. As we've seen, Lojban words are stressed on the
>> penultimate syllable, and if a name has different stress, we use capital
>> letters. This means that the English and French names Robert come out
>> differently in Lojban: the English name is robyt. in UK English, or rab,rt.
>> in some American dialects, but the French is roBER. .
>> - - -
>>
>> Robert in English becomes "robyt", apparently. But... shouldn't it be
>> "robyrt" ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> .albanos.
>>
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