From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 19 00:25:29 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:25:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BxhIe-0002F1-Sq for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:25:28 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:25:28 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Anyone there? Message-ID: <20040819072528.GC5127@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20040818231250.GA13226@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040819061942.58659.qmail@web52004.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040819061942.58659.qmail@web52004.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 698 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:19:42PM +1000, Tristan Mc Leay wrote: > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > It's actually the lack of short 'i' that pisses me off. :-) > > Why is it that [I] isn't an allophone of /i/? For most people in the > world, they're close enough that it's hard to distinguish anyway... > (I'm a native English speaker, and out of context, I find hearing [i] > vs [I] difficult; [I] is many times easier for me to produce than [i] > though.) /me blinks. You find the "i" in "bit" hard to distinguish from the "ee" in "beet"? That's just bizarre to me. What dialect? I'm pure American English. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"