Re: [lojban] Re: Lojbanising words?

[Oren <get.oren@gmail.com>]

>> >> There is no justification for basing names on their English
>> pronunciation unless
>>> English is si the local language
>> .
>>
>>I don't get "... unless English the local language."
>> :-p
>
> Hah, I totally read it that way, too.
>
> Sorry.  What I meant was that, taking cities as an example,
> you would lojbanize the names of those cities as pronounced
> by their inhabitants (i.e. the local language).  That's fairer and
> more 'neutral' than using their English names even though more
> people around the world may recognize the English name.
> So the lojban name for India's largest city should be based on
> Mumbai even though more people around the world would
> still recognize Bombay.
>
> totus

I think the joke was the typo { si } ending up in the original sentence:

"There is no justification for basing names on their English
pronunciation unless English is si the local language"

...and, if you interpret the typo as the lojban { si }, then you end up with:

>>I don't get "... unless English the local language."
>> :-p