[lojban] Re: cmene for Los Angeles

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 07 July 2009 18:53:50 Jonathan wrote:
> For what it's worth, I'm a northern California native, and I pronounce it
> (and have always heard it pronounced) as "loss ANN-juh-liss". I guess I'd
> probably lojbanize it as {las,andjylys.}.
>
> Since the origin of the name is Spanish, however, maybe it would be a
> better idea (more "logical"?) to aim for the original pronunciation, which
> is something like {los,ANxeles.}.

I say {losANdjylys} in English and {losANxeles} in Spanish, with ash in the 
English stressed syllable.

"ndj" is not allowed in Lojban. That's another reason to use the Spanish 
pronunciation.

Pierre


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