From xod@thestonecutters.net Thu Aug 19 10:55:29 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thestonecutters.net ([63.251.19.112] helo=chert.thestonecutters.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bxr8K-0003NQ-AQ for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:55:28 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (p78-77.acedsl.com [66.114.78.77]) by chert.thestonecutters.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5774148013 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4124E98C.8030100@thestonecutters.net> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:55:24 -0400 From: Zero Jelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Anyone there? References: <20040819081302.7510.qmail@web52006.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040819081302.7510.qmail@web52006.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 702 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: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Tristan Mc Leay wrote: >>You find the "i" in "bit" hard to distinguish from >>the "ee" in "beet"? >> >> > >No, not at all. But the 'ee' in 'beet' is a diphthong >IMD (starting from something like [@] and ending at >somewhere like [i]). > I don't find "ee" a dipthong at all. For me (NYC accent?) it's a pure vowel. -- "This historic ground in New Mexico, scene of the first atomic explosion on earth...gave the most effective answer today to Japanese propaganda that radiations were responsible for deaths even after the day of the explosion, Aug. 6, and that persons entering Hiroshima had contracted mysterious maladies due to persistent radioactivity." -- NY Times, 12 Sep 45