From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Nov 14 07:10:51 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:10:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ebfyt-00072b-3k for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:10:51 -0800 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.198]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Ebfyq-00072U-GT for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:10:50 -0800 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s15so1254341wxc for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:10:47 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=CvQoDGDVLlcn3lI/L+aIgZi5ynvNteS3260jdL3wwMik5PMg8owVACS7pqjQ/EJ053wnW4RN0w6lkv9si62jQ3zDuXV684cF4Ex/DFG+iaDP/AlnLl2Cnc/cDM37dUn2WqBeYio/HWV6za5CkfzBm0JZlhRlQwJT7eRxtBYu+d4= Received: by 10.64.210.17 with SMTP id i17mr2920929qbg; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:10:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.72.15 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:10:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2d3df92a0511140710h1b95ce9end8519592d6eee242@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:10:44 +0100 From: HeliodoR To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Schwa. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_16429_8988989.1131981044977" References: X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) X-archive-position: 2557 X-Approved-By: exitconsole@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: exitconsole@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_16429_8988989.1131981044977 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > > > If it is the case, could you please give me several examples (words) > > containing this sound. I think the first "A" in "America" should be > > Lojban's schwa. Am I right? > > I'd say that the first "A" in "America" is a shwa, yes. > I've heard this sound called "shwi"). They're called "schwa" and "schwi" in fact, with the "c." A most significant example I've seen in a book on English grammar was "station" (pronounced as: [steicyn]). Actually, several nouns ending in "-ion" have the schwa vowel. mi'e xiLI,odor. ------=_Part_16429_8988989.1131981044977 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
> If it is the case, could yo= u please give me several examples (words)
> containing this sound. I = think the first "A" in "America" should be
> Lojban's schwa. Am I right?

I'd say that the first "A&= quot; in "America" is a shwa, yes.

> I've heard this sound called "shwi").
 
They're called "schwa" and "schwi" in fact, w= ith the "c."
A most significant example I've seen in a book on English
grammar was "station" (pronounced as: [steicyn]).
Actually, several nouns ending in "-ion" have the schwa
vowel.
 
mi'e xiLI,odor.
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