Re: [lojban] Re: "la" in names

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:34:08AM +0300, Yanis Batura wrote:
> I am absolutely sure that a native Lojban speaker will have the
> rule comfortly sitting in his/her brain. I am absolutely sure that
> given a good special training we will all internalize this rule.

I utterly disagree.  More to the point, there is *no evidence* for
your view, and lots for mine.

> > A rule we can't follow that, in the not-following, breaks
> > audio-visual isomorphism is, to me, a total travesty of one of
> > the most important goals of the language.  Whether someone gets
> > to use the "la" sound in their name or not is totally irrelevant
> > to my concerns.  We're *breaking the language*, and it has to
> > stop.
> 
> Your suggestions? (sorry if I missed something back from 2005 :)

Pauses before all names.

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=The%20Case%20Against%20LA

-Robin

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