From mark@kli.org Sun Aug 27 12:35:09 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 681 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2000 19:35:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Aug 2000 19:35:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pi.meson.org) (209.191.39.185) by mta3 with SMTP; 27 Aug 2000 19:35:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 4754 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Aug 2000 19:31:00 -0000 Date: 27 Aug 2000 19:30:59 -0000 Message-ID: <20000827193059.4753.qmail@pi.meson.org> To: lojban@egroups.com In-reply-to: <39A8CF80.BF94A9F@math.bas.bg> (message from Ivan A Derzhanski on Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:21:20 +0300) Subject: Re: [lojban] World-historical and religious figures in Lojban References: <39A8CF80.BF94A9F@math.bas.bg> From: "Mark E. Shoulson" >From: Ivan A Derzhanski >Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:21:20 +0300 > >That is true. Fricatives do tend to become affricates after sonorant >consonants (nasals and liquids). Happens sporadically in German, but >is a rule in Yiddish (De _unser_ --> Yd _undzer_ `our', De _falsch_ >--> Yd _falch_ `false'); also in Mordvin and other languages. Indeed; I wasn't sure I could use {soldji} in a recent post as an example because I thought perhaps Lojban had forbidden {ldj} on the grounds that it would not be distinct from {lj}, just as {ndj}, {ndz}, {ntc} and {nts} are forbidden. But this is not so. ~mark