Re: lojban-list Digest V5 #7

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 1/9/2006 4:22:02 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> On 1/7/06, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> > In more common names, the English names "John", "Jan", "Jane", and "Jen"
> > are so packed that Lojbanization loses distinctness.
>
> I would do them as {djon}, {djan}, {djein} and {djen}, but "John" has
> been traditionally lojbanized as {djan}. (There's also {djin} and {djun}
> for "Gene" and "June".)


and "Joan"?  {djon}.  "Jan" and "Jen" are probably the two hardest to differentiate.

stevo