Re: [lojban-beginners] Biting off way more than I can chew -- and loving it!

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

On Sunday 11 April 2010 01:06:17 Gearhead Shem Tov wrote:
> This is my first post about lojban ever.  I'm a Yank expat living in
> Adelaide, South Australia.  I'm a recovering engineer, a published SF
> author, and I'm currently studying to be a sculptor (long story...).

fi'i do

> I have studied a couple languages very different to English -- two
> years each of Japanese and German, with a smattering of Hebrew,
> Russian, Spanish, and Swedish (and FORTRAN, Pascal, Modula 2, and
> Forth :), so I know this project is very ambitious.  I figure I'll
> take it a sentence at a time with the notion that I'll have to ask
> lots of naive questions and my translations will be crap at the
> outset.  As I progress I hope my questions will become monotonically
> more interesting and the translation correspondingly smoother.  To
> keep me motivated I would probably blog the whole process (unless
> somebody has a better suggestion); perhaps other beginners would find
> such a blog of interest.

Aha! Another Forthwright!

> So, here is Naive Question # 1 (NQ1):
>
> In my cursory reading of lojban orthography I've found no instance of
> an mn consonant cluster, but neither have I found a rule clearly
> forbidding it.  Would .OMni.LINguyl. be a reasonable -- or even legal
> -- lojbanisation of "Omnilingual"?  Or would it need to be more
> like .omyniLINguyl. ?

Besides the previously mentioned gismu, there are these lujvo:
jagdimnalpei kamna'ujbi kamnakseltro kamnakseltru kamnakydzeseltru 
kamnolraitru kamnynunpe'i komnicygau nimnaujizdunkri pamnabmi prulamna'a 
ritkemna'aterjvi
and the fu'ivla "suomne".

For "Omnilingual", I'd use a lujvo or a cmevla made from rafsi.

I tried to find "gear" in jbovlaste, and there isn't one. Is "denxislu" good?

Pierre
-- 
La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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