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

[Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>]

2010/11/12 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also, of course, Jorge and George are two different names in English.
>> And in Spanish. (Although if you have something in Spanish being
>> Lojbanized as ".djordj.", it would have to be spelled "yorll" or
>> something, which is phonotactically invalid.)
>
> Yorll is impossible, a word can't end with "ll" in Spanish, but the

Yup, hence the "phonotactically invalid" part.

> name "Yoryi" exists, for example:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoryi_Morel

Hm. While I'd be inclined to Lojbanize that with an s on the end, I
guess it could be truncated instead. Hadn't thought of that. (Going
backwards from Lojban names into natlangs always takes some
inventiveness, as it's the inverse of a process that is both
unstandardized and lossy.)

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