I'm pretty sure they understood and were making a joke of your typo. (the {si} following the "is", with {si} in lojban having the effect of erasing the "is")
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:29 PM, A. PIEKARSKI
<totus@rogers.com> wrote:
> Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 3:05:20 AM
> Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojbanising words?
>
> >> 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
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