Robin Lee Powell wrote:
Not without error all the time, but without error more than, say,
50% of the time they Lojbanize names with those sounds in them.
Again, we have no evidence that that goal is acheivable, because we
certainly haven't acheived it so far (3 Lojbanists reviewing WIL?
puts us at an *upper bound* of a 33% chance of getting it right).
While I was typing this mail, someone Lojbanized {malak} on #lojban,
by the way.
People have made the error the other way too. I was looking at Wikipedia and saw an article [[vlydimir.lenin]]. If the "la", "lai", "la'i", or "doi" is preceded by a consonant, its presence does not invalidate the name, e.g. {blabruk}.
As to {malak}, the part after "la" is less than a syllable. Probably he didn't realize that you have to break everywhere a vowel is followed by a consonant, including the last one. A single consonant is a valid cmevla, such as {r}, the "god of hesitation". That would explain overlooking {laitl} also; {tl} has no vowel. But then neither does {clsn}.
The "la" rule is still a lot simpler than validating fu'ivla, which requires doing slinku'i tests and checking for lujvo.
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