Re: [lojban] Request for grammar clarifications

[Robin <robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> li'o
> >Time for doing to Arabic what we have done to Chinese -- but do we have a
> >native Arabic speaker? I know we have some pros. I incline to {alxax} just
> >because it sounds Arabic, but that is stereotypy and ignorance and who knows
> >what it might turn out to mean. {alex}?
> 
> How about {ala'um} (or substitute 'n' or some other C for 'm')? That is a legal
> cmene as the part from 'l' to before the next C is "la'u"; only "la", "la'i",
> and "doi" are forbidden.

That would be confused with "aleyhim", I think.

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