On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Saturday 18 August 2012 22:27:14 Mike S. wrote:
> But no one disputes those pronunciations. What's being discussed is
> whether it is a *good idea* to use it in fu'ivla like suggested {dzombii}.
> It was already pointed out that {ii} is difficult for many globally. In
> fact, {ii} is very marginal even in Lojban. TTBOMK it was totally kept out
> of native vocabulary except for the interjection {.ii}, which I think was
> wise. It'd probably be best to generally keep it and {uu} out of fu'ivla
> too.
I think that "ii" and "uu" in fu'ivla should be discouraged, but I wouldn't
forbid them. If the ve fu'ivla contains "ii", I'd keep the "ii",
e.g. "iinzila" (neck rings worn by Ndebele). For "zombie" I prefer "dzombie"
to "dzombii".