From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jun 19 09:58:51 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FsN5P-0001LR-Hj for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:58:51 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FsN5P-0001LK-5w for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:58:51 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:58:51 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban-beginners] Message-ID: <20060619165851.GA4600@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <8C85ED6CC1A2900-ACC-364B@MBLK-M27.sysops.aol.com> <20060615214312.GS15955@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d17560606151616r3859d5d8lfbff6d06c3d372ea@mail.gmail.com> <20060615232353.GU15955@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <44965A53.404@bilkent.edu.tr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44965A53.404@bilkent.edu.tr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3277 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:03:31AM +0300, robin wrote: > I can see that "ra'in" is different from "rain", but I can't see > how "rai'n" is different. Is it the same as "rai'yn"? I'm assuming you meant commas there. I don't know for sure how "rain" syllabifies in Lojban, but I'd assumed it is all one syllable, which is very different. "rai,n" and "rai,yn" are also different; the former uses a syllabic n. -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/