[lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one.

[Martin Norbäck <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

fre 2003-05-16 klockan 20.35 skrev Invent Yourself:
> On Fri, 16 May 2003, Gregory Dyke wrote:
> 
> > Robin wrote:
> >
> > > Martin Norbck wrote:
> > >> In cmavo, you may stress however you like but the cmavo are still the
> > >> same words. In brivla you must have penultimate stress. Why not just
> > >> make it acceptable to stress a cmene in whatever way you like?
> > >
> > >
> > > Because people get touchy about their names. pi,ER. probably doesn't
> > > want to have people calling him pi,er.
> > >
> > > robin.tr
> > >
> > I don't expect my friend Lara  would enjoy being called any of the
> > lojbanized name forms one could think up. Why be picky about stress?
> 
> 
> 
> It makes more of an impact on longer names. In the US we say the name of
> the old pharaoh as tutankhAmen. When a friend of mine pronounced it
> tutAnkhamen he had to resort to a description before I understood.

But is the point that tutankAmen and tutAnkamen should be different
cmene? If they are not, why should they be spelled differently? And how
do they pronounce his name in Egypt?

Regards,

	Martin