[lojban-beginners] Re: lojbanization

["Vid Sintef" <picos.picos@gmail.com>]

On 5/24/07, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

Some people like to use the vowel that was dropped from the gismu as the last
vowel of the fu'ivla, or repeat the previous vowel of the fu'ivla as the
last.

The latter way would be a kind of vowel harmony, like in Finnish or Turkish. Interesting.

When lojbanizing a Latin word ending in "-us" or "-um", those being the second
declension ending, the "s" or "m" is dropped. The vowel may be left as "u" or
changed to "o" (which is the corresponding ending in several Romance
languages).

I think it would've been convenient if {y} were permissible in fu'ivla since it's phonetically neutral among other vowels and therefore could be usefully applied to those differing declension sounds in natural languages.

Vid