From cowan@ccil.org Fri Mar 16 07:01:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 16 Mar 2001 15:01:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 72611 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2001 15:01:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 16 Mar 2001 15:01:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 16 Mar 2001 15:01:04 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14dvk1-00087a-00; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:02:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Some questions In-Reply-To: from Avital Oliver at "Mar 16, 2001 08:25:39 am" To: Avital Oliver Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:02:09 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Avital Oliver scripsit: > > and don't know how to distinguish samekh from sin. > The average Israeli would probably laugh at you .u'i. Obviously the Right Thing is to pronounce samekh as [s] and sin as [K}; i.e., voiceless lateral fricative! (It must have had a lateral component at one time, as in the classic example of Eng. "balsam" from a cognate of B-Sin-M.) -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter