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[lojban] Re: Question: origins of "spitaki"
On 20 Lip, 18:59, iesk <pa....@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Friday, July 20, 2012 6:32:44 PM UTC+2, remod wrote:
>
> > [...] in "Psittaciformes" the "ci" doesn't sound like {ki} but more like
> > {tci}.
>
> That depends on one's local tradition of pronouncing Latin and hence
> latinesque Linnaean names. I believe there was a recommendation to render
> Latin <c> as Latin-mode-Lojban <c> (so, /S/) when converting Linnaeans, but
> I couldn't find the relevant text. Perhaps it was a TLI Loglan convention,
> not Lojban; I'm not entirely sure. Cf. alsohttp://dag.github.com/cll/4/8/
> (for me'evla).
This convention can be seen in gismu for metric system prefixes:
xecto, centi, decti, picti, gocti. On the other hand, deca- is dekto
(possibly because otherwise long rafsi would clash with decti). ta'o,
for national reasons I especially like xecto with rafsi cto, which is
very similar to the Polish word "sto" ('one hundred') (it's similar in
most or all other slavic languages, like Russian or Czech).
mu'o mi'e ianek
>
> iesk
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