[lojban] Re: Lojban for Beginners lesson 12 answers

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

On Saturday 11 June 2005 07:02, Opi Lauma wrote:
> I know how Moscow and St. Petersburg sound in Russian (some think like
> ?masKVA? and ?sank pietierBURK?). And I think that correct Lojban names are
> {la masKVA} and {la sank pietierBURK}, respectively.

{la masKVA} is impossible. We've had a suggestion {la moskov}, because that's 
the stem of the adjective московский. If the source language reduces vowels 
according to stress, which Russian does, I think it's okay to use the 
unreduced vowel sound when Lojbanizing.

phma

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