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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/12 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>
>> 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.)

I wasn't actually suggesting that "djordj" would be a good
Lojbanization of Spanish "Yoryi". I don't know how he pronounced his
name, but with my pronunciation it would go into Lojban as "corc(is)"
or "jorj(is), not as "djordj", and I suppose many would rather go with
"ioriis".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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