[lojban-beginners] Re: making a cmene

["Earth Engine" <earthengine@gmail.com>]

Thanks. I think that {o,u} can be say as one syllables according to The Complete Lojban Language:
3.3)
  .i,iai,ii,iai,ion.
    which is technically a different Lojban name. Since the intent
    with Lojbanized names is to allow them to be pronounced more
    like their native counterparts, the comma is allowed to
    represent vowel glides or some non-Lojbanic sound.

On 7/15/06, Pierre Abbat < phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Saturday 15 July 2006 05:10, Earth Engine wrote:
> Shanghai -> canhais.
> Guangzhou -> guandjo,us.
>
> Is these cneme correct?

Neither is a well-formed word. {'} (occasionally written "h") does not occur
next to a consonant, and {ndj} is a forbidden triple. I'd say {canxais}; for
Guangzhou you could either insert a pause, {guan.djo,us}, or drop the {d}.
Not sure whether to drop the {u}, as {ou} is two syllables in Lojban but only
one in Chinese.

phma

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