[lojban-beginners] Re: mi tadni la lojban

[Aaron Unger <lists@ungerdesign.com>]

I thought it was because names {cmene} aren't allowed to be 4 characters
long, due to conflicts with ... some word type that I can't remember off
the top of my head. :-) I'm obviously a very, very beginner.

Do let me know if I'm wrong!

-- Aaron

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 05:01, robin wrote:
> 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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