[lojban] Re: mekso samples.

[Philip Newton <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:22:10 -0700, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 01:02:36PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > CLL proposes {vy.bu} for "w" and {ge'o.o'obu} for omega.
> 
> OK.  I don't know enough about Greek lettering to have any idea why that
> makes sense, but I'll go with it.  Done.

Presumably because in Ancient Greek, omega was simply a long version
of omicron in pronunciation - /o/ vs. /oo/ (well, /o:/), or in Lojban,
o vs. o'o.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>