Re: [lojban] Re: I wanted to share this with you (writing thingy!).

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  (Plus,
> pronouncing somebody's name with the stress they like on it is
> friendly.)

Yes, that's similar to pronouncing a Chinese name with the tone they
like, even though tone is irrelevant in Lojban. For personal names, it
is polite to at least try to use whatever the name bearer likes, when
you are aware of it and you are able to manage it.

But for names of places, products, and so on, insisting that everyone
should use one or another of the permissible forms is not really
practical.

> But yeah, there's no doubt about the fact that, from a morphological
> and syntactical standpoint, .martin. and .marTIN. are the same name.
> Ditto .ai,on,ys., .a,iO,nys., and any other variation in placement of
> the commas and the stress. As far as the grammar is concerned, it is
> as irrelevant as the fact that I say the name with a rounded .y. This
> isn't a matter for disagreement; it's a feature of the official
> parser.

At least a feature of the official-to-be parser. I don't know what the
currently official parser does, since it doesn't really have a fully
functional morphology.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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