[lojban-beginners] Re: Anyone there?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:19:31PM +0100, Chris Howlett wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I loathe the pronounciation of all Lojbanizations of
> > my name.  To address me in Lojban, I request that you use either
> > "camgusmis" or, if you can't remember that, "rabn".
> 
> Fair enough - I'll try to remember that. It's probably a British-US
> thing - over here Robin is definitely pronounced with a Lojban o, so I
> often forget that over in the US it'd usually be a Lojban a.

It's actually the lack of short 'i' that pisses me off.  :-)

> > > As I said before, I'm learning from "Lojban for Beginners", which
> > > notes that fe'o is the actually correct sign-off,
> > 
> > Does it?  Where?
> 
> Er... One moment... Chapter 12, Vocatives, last bullet point (just
> above Exercise 3)

Thanks.

> (Incidentally, I'm not overly keen on the Lojbanisation of my name
> either, but without any short i vowel, there's not much I can do)

Heh.  I translated my name.

-Robin

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