Re: [lojban] World-historical and religious figures in Lojban

["Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>]

>From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@MATH.BAS.BG>
>Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:21:20 +0300
>
>That is true.  Fricatives do tend to become affricates after sonorant
>consonants (nasals and liquids).  Happens sporadically in German, but
>is a rule in Yiddish (De _unser_ --> Yd _undzer_ `our', De _falsch_
>--> Yd _falch_ `false'); also in Mordvin and other languages.

Indeed; I wasn't sure I could use {soldji} in a recent post as an example
because I thought perhaps Lojban had forbidden {ldj} on the grounds that it
would not be distinct from {lj}, just as {ndj}, {ndz}, {ntc} and {nts} are
forbidden.  But this is not so.

~mark