[lojban] Re: Initial impression

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

On Sunday 03 January 2010 23:23:52 Christopher Doty wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree with this.  Although it is certainly true that
> languages do violence to names when they pronounce them, or when
> converting them from another writing system, they do this in writing
> much less frequently--English speakers don't rewrite the Spanish name
> 'Juan' as 'Whann', for example.  Nonetheless, Lojban does at least
> have built-in outs for this.

Some languages do. I've seen a book by Josh McDowell translated to Albanian; 
his name was written as "Gjosh Mëkdouël". And in Spanish it's common to 
modify foreign names: Luther turns into Lutero, for instance.

Pierre

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