On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Minimiscience <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > de'i li 29 pi'e 09 pi'e 2008 la'o fy. Donald McLean .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. >> One of my children has a name that starts with an 'H'. As near as I >> can tell, the only use of this sound in Lojban is the apostrophe to >> separate two vowels. What, then are the most common approaches for >> handling this situation when converting names? > .skamyxatra > > An 'H' at the beginning of a name is almost always Lojbanized into an 'x', > which makes the sound of a voiced 'H' (the sound doesn't naturally exist in > English, so I'm not sure how best to explain it).
I lived in Germany for two years so I am actually familiar with the sound. I don't think that my daughter is going to like that answer though. She's already miffed about losing the final vowel in her name. Thank you, Donald
