From mark@kli.org Sun Aug 27 18:23:38 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29106 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2000 01:23:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 28 Aug 2000 01:23:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pi.meson.org) (209.191.39.185) by mta1 with SMTP; 28 Aug 2000 01:23:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 5121 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Aug 2000 01:19:35 -0000 Date: 28 Aug 2000 01:19:35 -0000 Message-ID: <20000828011935.5120.qmail@pi.meson.org> To: lojban@egroups.com In-reply-to: <20000828011244.5100.qmail@pi.meson.org> (mark@kli.org) Subject: Re: [lojban] World-historical and religious figures in Lojban References: <0008271734400D.14222@neofelis> <20000828011244.5100.qmail@pi.meson.org> From: "Mark E. Shoulson" >From: "Mark E. Shoulson" >Date: 28 Aug 2000 01:12:44 -0000 > >>From: Pierre Abbat >>Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:31:20 -0400 >> >>On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, pycyn@aol.com wrote: >>li'o >>> As for Caesar, since we know pretty well how he would have said it and this >>>knnowledge is pretty widely disseminated, I suspect we go with iulius >>>kaisar. Having just read a novel in which Jesus appears in Aramaic, Greek, >>>Latin and both P- and Q-Celtic, I find that harder, but come down on balance >>>for iecuys. >> >>I suggest iecu,ys. Without the slaka bu the uys sounds like "wuss", making y a >>full vowel and u a semivowel, the opposite of the way it's pronounced in >>Hebrew. What did the Celts say? And come to think of it, I've seen it in Hebrew as simply {.iecu}, two syllables. This may have been a back-formation from Jesu, or maybe an attempt to obscure the meaning of the name. ~mark