[lojban-beginners] Re: Hello

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

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:29:44PM +0100, Kio M. Smallwood wrote:
> --	How do you pronounce the lojban letter "y"? The examples
> given in the beginners book seem dependent on one's accent on how
> the sound is pronounced.

So for as I know, any version of English's "uh", as in the sound you
make when someone has just walked up to you on the street and said
"My hovercraft is full of eels".

> --	I tried to find the Audio files mentioned on the website,
> but was unsuccessful. What does lojban sound like?

Try http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Multimedia

> --	Has there been any effort to make systematic lojbanic names
> for scientific terms (eg chemical names) that do not use only the
> latin (or greek) roots?

Not that I'm aware of.

> --	Is the following a good translation of my name?
> 	curves cmaricfois
> 	<purity small-tree-field>
> 	Kio Smallwood

Sure, although if it was me I'd use "curv" instead of "curves".

-Robin

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