Re: First stab

[Colin Fine <colin@kindness.demon.co.uk>]

vecu'u le notci po'u <3693A90C.B9FB07BE@bcc.bilkent.edu.tr> la Robin
Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR> cu cusku di'e
>From: Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>
>
>John Cowan wrote:
>
>>
>> > .i croatian. ve jbena
>>
>> "Croatia is my birthplace."  You left off "la" before "croatian."
>
>It would probably be worth creating a fu'ivla for "Croatia".  I don't know
>how "Croatia" is pronounced in Croatian, but using the English
>pronunciation, you would get something like "gugdrkro'eyca", which like most
>fu'ivla, I find pretty unpronouncable!  Perhaps someone with the required
>arcane knowledge could come up with a stage 4 fu'ivla.

Indeed. 'croatian' is a perfectly good Lojban name, as far as I know,
but would be pronounced approximately 'shro-ah-tea-an' - probably not
what was wanted.
>
>By the way, I've been wondering if the word "cravatte" (tie) and its
>equivalent in other languages comes from "Croat", since apparently it was
>brought to England by an English soldier who saw Croatian irregulars wearing
>it.
>
>co'o mi'e robin.
>
>
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