Subject: Re: Languages' names for Lojban (was: RE: [lojban] French word for "Lojban"

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 10:27:45 PDT

la djan cusku di'e

>It would never occur to me to pronounce an obviously non-English
>word as if it were English.

But it becomes an English word once you start using it
in English, and you can't keep pronouncing it with non-English
sounds for long if you use it frequently, it becomes a pain
both to speak like that and to hear it. I guess this is more
noticeable in languages with more restricted phonologies than
English, but you can't be expected to make distinctions that
are just not part of the language. At least for many
people on this list "lojban" and "lojbanic" are English words
by now, aren't they? As well as gismu, lujvo, etc.

co'o mi'e xorxes

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