At 01:10 PM 5/23/03 -0400, Benjamin Esham wrote:
On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 12:56 PM, qbradley wrote:I would still like help "lojban"izing my last name: Bradley. Can you even make the right kind of A sound for Bradley? bradli would sound like "broad-ly" wouldn't it?It's true that the a sound in your name doesn't exist in Lojban. The closest you can get is {a}.
Some people, especially those (British?) whose "a" is less frontal, would prefer an {e} for the sound, at which point, he can choose between closer sound or closer spelling.
{bradli} is a good lojbanization, except that names cannot end with vowels. Most people add an {s} to the end of the word to make it a proper cmene: {bradlis.}.
There is no obligation to choose "s". Any other consonant is equally fine, so choose aesthetically.
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