From dbtwery@bellatlantic.net Thu Aug 31 01:11:49 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32570 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2000 08:11:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Aug 2000 08:11:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net) (199.45.39.157) by mta2 with SMTP; 31 Aug 2000 08:11:49 -0000 Received: from voyou (adsl-141-151-13-136.bellatlantic.net [141.151.13.136]) by smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id EAA15890; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 04:11:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000d01c01322$deabf100$aa45fea9@voyou> To: , "Garrett Jones" References: <8ol20p+gu2m@eGroups.com> Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban nickname Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 04:10:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "David Twery" ----- Original Message ----- From: Garrett Jones Sent: Thursday, 31 August 2000 03:38 > i want to make myself a lojban nickname. My normal internet nickname > is "alkaline" (as in the battery), so i was thinking something along > those lines. I looked through the gismu list and found a couple words > that would be useful in a compound (lujvo?): > > jilka - alkali/base > livla - energy source > > Now to combine them together, i assume you use the three letter forms > of these words, but that comes out a little funny looking: "jillil". A > few too many l's there. any solutions? Two consecutive same consonants are "illegal" in Lojban orthography. You can fix these problems by adding a "verbal hyphen" -- y. jillil --> jilylil But you might want to go for a three-part cmene which avoids the y -- jildiclil jilka - alkali/base dikca - electrical livla - energy source This would also give a possible lujvo for an alkaline battery -- jildiclivla. (I'd personally prefer "jilka cmadiclivla" -- alkaline small-electrical-energy source). --d