From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 09 19:36:51 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GB0Pj-0000qU-7W for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:36:51 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.44]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GB0Ph-0000qI-Ek for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:36:51 -0700 Received: from [192.168.0.100] (cpe-72-181-106-20.houston.res.rr.com [72.181.106.20]) by ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7A2alPk005346 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 21:36:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44DA9B36.4080400@houston.rr.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:34:30 -0500 From: Bob A User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20060423) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Foreign strings Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Score: -0.9 (/) X-archive-position: 3485 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: bob-a@houston.rr.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Is it the case that foreign strings are surrounded by the first letter of their language? For example, I often see something like 'gy John gy'. Would it be correct to write "dy Johannes dy'? ki'e