[lojban-beginners] Re: lojbanization

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 27 May 2007 13:05, komfo,amonan wrote:
> On 5/27/07, zimmah <zimmah@gmail.com> wrote:
> > can anyone tell me what would be the best lojbanisation for the names
> > 'evelyne' (pronounced a bit like e-veh-leen) and 'zimri' (pronounced like
> > zim-ree in english)
>
> I would say { .Evelin. } and { zimrit. }, assuming the latter is Semitic.
> (If I need a final consonant, I tend to use 't'  for Semitic names and 's'
> for Indo-European names.) mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan

I use 't' for Semitic feminine names, since 't' is a feminine suffix in 
Semitic and is also found in other Afro-Asiatic languages. For masculine 
names, I use 's' or 'x'. All the Zimris I found in the Bible are men, except 
the one in Jeremiah, which is a place.

phma