From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 19 19:32:41 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:32:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv4O1-0003cy-Jn for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:32:41 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv4O1-0003cr-Bq for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:32:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:32:41 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: coi rodo Message-ID: <20050720023241.GD2444@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <42DACBF3.8020003@hypermetrics.com> <42DBFB07.8090409@yandex.ru> <42DD856B.4010506@hypermetrics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42DD856B.4010506@hypermetrics.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1595 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 Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:57:47PM -0500, Hal Fulton wrote: > diLItyr wrote: > > > >"'" can only be between two vowels... I think the border between > >words counts so that the "'" can't be there.? And anyway, if you > >say {la .al.}, it sounds same as {la 'al.} would, IMO. > > :) Not in my native language/dialect. Agreed. > It bothers me that Lojban doesn't have a true H, except one that > can only interpose two vowels. You get used to it. :-) > As a side note, Lojban's x sounds more like a k to me than it > sounds like an h. Most English speakers feel that way, yes. > My dialect of English doesn't have that x sound. No dialect of English has that sound. > I'm very new to this list, do people use {} to indicate Lojban > spellings? It's pretty common, yeah. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/