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Re: [lojban] coi rodo -- greetings from the newbie
At 12:17 PM 05/03/2000 -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > Your Truly,
> > Jeff Olson
> > (any suggestions as to how that would be spelled/pronounced in lojban?)
>
>coi djef
>You can pronounce it (nearly) as-is, unless you pronounce it
>differently than I'm guessing. The lojban spelling would be {DJEF
>OLsyn}. Assuming midwest American English pronunciation: `e' as in
>`let', `o' as in `so', and `y' as `a' in `about'. Capitalization is
>used to mark stress. Remember to keep the vowels pure.
This is a good answer, but two points:
1) Lojban syllables with "y" are never stressed, the default stress is
penultimate (next to last syllable), and we generally do not capitalize
unless necessary. So while Pol has given an acceptable Lojban version, the
normal writing would be without the capitals as "djef olsyn".
2) Most dialects of English do not actually use a "y" in the pronunciation
where Pol inserted one, but just use syllabic "n". Thus another choice
perhaps more true to the pronunciation, would be "djef olsn", where you
could also write it as "ol,sn" or "ols,n" to make the syllabication clear.
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