From eye_onus@yahoo.com Sat May 03 11:13:11 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 03 May 2003 11:32:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web10907.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.131.43]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19C1VX-0002Ks-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:13:11 -0700 Message-ID: <20030503181310.18463.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [132.178.215.45] by web10907.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:13:10 PDT Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 11:13:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon MacLeod Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: mi tadni la lojban To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <20030503174440.GA49390@allusion.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 291 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: eye_onus@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners --- Jordan DeLong wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 07:22:06PM +0200, G Dyke wrote: > > Theodore Reed (bancus) wrote: > > >On Sat, 03 May 2003 11:12:56 +0200 > > >G Dyke wrote: > > >>at the time, but couldn't remember how to say "sound". I also didn't > > >>phrase the whole thing too well. I was actually remarking that both > > >>{brus} and {bris} bear little ressemblence to the English > > >>pronunciation of the name. > > > > > >Well, here in le mergu'e, we pronounce Bruce like lojban brus. > > > > You should know, but I can't help feeling that you don't. The english is > > pronounced as a rounded schwa, while in lojban, we can only have a > > rounded back or unrounded front or mid. I'd expect the same > > pronunciation in america and a rounded front vowel from an Awstrailian. > > Where I'm from (Southwest mergu'e), the u in bruce is pronounced > just like the oo in food. (lojban u; brus.). > Everywhere in the U.S. that I've been, Bruce is pronounced 'broos', which Lojbanized, would be brus. -Jon ===== "I have a brain, I've just lost my mind." -Ian McLeod -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GSC>$ d+(++) s++:-- a-- C++ UL P L>+++ !E W+(++) N++ o? K- !w--- O- M@ V? PS+++ PE- Y+ PGP- t+ !5 X(+) R+ !tv-- b+++ DI+ D+ G e* h* r-(%) y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com