From gudlat@web.de Sun Sep 02 15:01:49 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: gudlat@web.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 2 Sep 2001 22:01:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 23655 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2001 22:01:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Sep 2001 22:01:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailgate5.cinetic.de) (217.72.192.165) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 Sep 2001 22:01:48 -0000 Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp01.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.0.189]) by mailgate5.cinetic.de (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.0-0.4) with SMTP id f82K1vO26309 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:01:57 +0200 Received: from gudysoft by smtp.web.de with smtp (freemail 4.2.2.2 #11) id m15ddRN-007ohbC; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:01 +0200 Organization: W. E. Palmer Lumber Co. To: Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:01:13 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: [lojban] pe BAI on tense markers Reply-to: gudlat@bofh.zzn.com Message-ID: <3B92AC29.27365.82BE41@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) From: "Daniel Gudlat" On 28 Aug 2001, at 14:00, Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > Oh dear. Better say on the Wiki explicitly that we should be using > Church Latin, not Classical Latin, for better recognisability. > > So: valsrverbo, valsrnomine, valsrxadverbo, valsrxadjektivo > > i.e. v => v, j => j. > > I think trajektori is bad Latin for trajectory --- but who's going > to recognise traiektori, after all... German, Russian and Czech lojbanists, among others, I would imagine. In fact, all those, who don't pronounce the letter 'j' the way lojban or english do. Thus, I would go for j -> i to get sound values closer to the original. -- Daniel "Gudy" Gudlat gudlat@web.de