From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Nov 15 04:50:54 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ec0H0-00036I-Ci for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:50:54 -0800 Received: from imo-m14.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.204]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Ec0Gy-00036A-Iy for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:50:53 -0800 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-m14.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id d.251.10a9366 (4394) for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 07:50:46 -0500 (EST) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: <251.10a9366.30ab33a5@wmconnect.com> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 07:50:45 EST Subject: [lojban-beginners] English schwa vs. Lojban y To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_251.10a9366.30ab33a5_boundary" X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) X-archive-position: 2564 X-Approved-By: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners --part1_251.10a9366.30ab33a5_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/15/2005 4:22:27 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > 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. > That ending is also frequently pronounced as a syllabic /n/, which was mentioned in an earlier post. stevo --part1_251.10a9366.30ab33a5_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message=20= dated 11/15/2005 4:22:27 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.or= g writes:


A most significant example=20= 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.


That ending is also frequently pronounced as a syllabic /n/, which was m= entioned in an earlier post.

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