[lojban] Re: jinku fi la paludizm

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Monday 18 October 2004 09:39, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> In my dialect of Spanish, "s" is realized as [h] when it is
> followed by a consonant, so I pronounce Spanish "paludismo"
> as [paluDihmo].
>
> In Lojban, "sm" is a valid consonant cluster. If we are
> borrowing the international word, which has a more or less
> standard spelling but no standard pronunciation, I'm not sure
> why we should borrow it in the form it is pronounced in English
> instead of keeping the standard spelling. Is the etymology of
> "paludism" known?

It's from Latin "palus", marsh (not to be confused with "palus", stake, as in 
Palo Alto - the stem of the former is "palud-", of the latter "pal-"). Slavic 
languages spell the ending "-izm".

phma
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