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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:51:39PM -0400, Rob Speer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:16:17PM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote:
> > I shouldn't just leave it at that. As a Lojbanist, do you have any better
> > ideas for dealing with names?
>
> The 'twe...betwe' system seems to work well enough - it seems rather
> unlikely that 'betwe' would occur within a name.
>
> But even that limitation could be avoided. What Lojban does for foreign
> names is {la'o X name X}, where X is any Lojban word which doesn't occur
> within the name. (The word 'gy' is often used for this - it's the letter
> G, standing for 'glico', indicating that the name comes from English).
It now occurs to me that this wouldn't work in Ceqli, unless the
delimiter word were restricted to a single syllable.
I don't like the suggestion for counting the number of syllables in the
name at all, incidentally.
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Rob Speer