[lojban-beginners] Re: mi tadni la lojban

[robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

Bruce Webber wrote:

> G Dyke wrote:
>
> > Bruce Webber wrote:
> >
> > > I've recently begun learning Lojban, using the Lojban for Beginner's 
> > > text and the LogFlash program. I don't have any questions for the 
> > > group yet, but rather than lurk, I thought I'd say hi.
> > uisai fi'i doi bris i sarcu fa lenu do cuxna lo lojbo cmene kei mu'i 
> > ledu'u zo brus .e zo bris na drani
> >
> > mu'o mi'e greg
>
>
> Greg,
>
> Thanks for your reply and your assistance. Here is my translation of 
> what you wrote:
>
> "Very happy you're here, welcome, Bruce. It's necessary that you chose 
> some lojbanic name because 'brus' and 'bris' are not proper."
>
> Assuming I understood what you wrote correctly, I'm not sure why 
> "brus" is not proper. Does it have to do with the "b" and "r" next to 
> each other (voiced and unvoiced consonants)? If it's not proper, I 
> would lojbanize my middle name "David" and use that. I would say:
>
> ki'e .i zo deivyd cmene mi mu'i zo brus. na drani
I can't see anything wrong with brus. BR is a permissable initial 
consonant pair, the word ends in a consonant, and it doesn't contain 
"la" or "doi".  Looks like a perfectly good cmene to me.

robin.tr

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