jack@rlgvax.UUCP (06/24/83)
QUICK PROUNCIATION GUIDE
a as in "father"
e as in "met"
i as in "machine"
o the first of the two vowel sounds in "note".
English speakers think of the "o" in "note" as
representing one sound, but many of us (probably
particularly Americans) always utter two sounds run
together in "note", "no", "low", "row", "rope",
etc. "Note" in Loglan phonetics is "nout". The
Loglan "o" is close to the trailing sound of "law".
u as in "blue"
The consonants that represent different sounds in Loglan and
English are c and j. C is the initial sound of "sheep". A
loglanist transcribing English sounds into Loglan phonetic
writing would write "cip" for "sheep" and "tcip" for "cheap"
("cip" and "tcip" are not Loglan words (except perhaps as
proper names)). J is the "zh" sound in "azure", "garage". J
in written English usually stands for the two sounds rendered
in Loglan writing "dj".
LOGLAN EXAMPLES
Loi Hello.
Katma Be a cat.
Blanu Be blue.
Blanu da Be bluer than X.
Da blanu de X is bluer than Y.
Da fa blanu de X will be bluer than Y.
Gacpi Be happy.
Mi na gacpi I am (now) happy.
Ei tu na gacpi Are you happy?
In examples above, I introduced two tense markers, <na> (I'll
adopt the convention of quoting Loglan in <> and English in
"") for present tense, and <fa> for future tense. There is
also <pa>.
Da pa katma X used to be a cat.
If the predicate is not preceeded by a tense marker, it is
tenseless. Just what this means is still up in the air. In
some places the literature claims it means potentiality.
Da sucmi X is a swimmer.
Da na sucmi X is swimming right now.
Da vedma de di do X sells Y to W for H.
Da ferlu de di do X falls from Y to W in gravity
field H.
Ra ba murki noa pa ferlu lo tricu
For all x, x is a monkey only if x has fallen from
the mass of all trees (whatever that means).
Vedma le murki mi feni dolra
Sell the monkey to me for fifty dollars.
Sia
Thank you.
Siu
You're welcome.
Ta bragagra tarsensi
That is magnificent astronomy.
Predicate words are always stressed on the next-to-last
syllable. So <ta bragagra tarsensi> is pronounced /
tabraGAGratarSENsi/.
Da matma de di
X is the mother of Y with father W.
Mi penso le po da matma mi
I think that X is my mother.
Mi cnida le po tu gacpi
I need you to be happy. (pigin translation: I need
the event-that you are-happy.)
Da po matma
X is motherhood.
Da matma
X is a mother (somebody's mother).
Da nu matma
X has a mother.
Da fu matma
X is a father.
Da farfu
X is a father.
Da bilti
X is beautiful.
Da bilti sucmi
X beautifully swims (timeless).
Da na bilti sucmi
X is swimming beautifully (now).
Da sucmi bilti
X is a swimmer-kind of beautiful thing.
Ei tu clivu lo po bilti
Do you love Beauty?
No clivu mi
Don't love me.
La Meris bilti fumna
Mary is a beautiful kind of woman.
Always pause after a name (<Meris> is a name. You can tell
because it ends in a consonant. <La> is an article meaning
"the-one-named").
La Meris fuma bilti
Mary is beautiful in a womanly fasion.
La Meris fumna e bilti
The-one-named <Meris> is a woman and is beautiful.
Kanvi ba jia murki e fumna
See a monkey-woman. (Pigin: See something x (<ba>)
that is-a-monkey and is-a-woman.)
Loa
Goodbye.
Jack Waugh
Reston, Va.
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