From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Dec 02 14:17:55 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:17:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GqdBC-0003ql-TJ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:17:55 -0800 Received: from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.70]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GqdB8-0003qY-Rb for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:17:54 -0800 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=mindspring.com; b=nKYGrG1vK/yQVoZnSFm6TuSCUR2PxvZQuMICvVXgXurRqTIksqd+DvMv3STAKmL+; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from h-66-167-9-50.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net ([66.167.9.50] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GqdB5-0005DD-HX for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:17:47 -0500 Message-ID: <4571FB95.7050508@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:17:57 -0500 From: Ronald Guida User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Pronouncing "x" References: <4571D160.6030000@mindspring.com> <7C12B446-67E9-460B-8047-B1EC4DAF28B7@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7C12B446-67E9-460B-8047-B1EC4DAF28B7@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ELNK-Trace: bb67185be2c98d749c7f779228e2f6aeda0071232e20db4de3cc37720391d065e823b1b29bfedd4f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.167.9.50 X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 3768 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ronguida@mindspring.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Evan Wilson wrote: > Ronald (I hope you don't mind that I address you rather informally), > > I took a different approach on learning how to pronounce the Lojban "x". > I happen to have studied the Persian (Farsi) alphabet, and it has the > character "خ" or "khe" which seems to be similar if not exact to the > Lojban "x". A sound recording of "خ" can be found here: > http://easypersian.com/W4/khe_4.mp3 > (Reminds me a bit of Hebrew) > > Even if you do already have that confidently figured out, perhaps it > will help in confirmation? > > -Termy > Yes, that sounds very similar to my "X". Also Wikipedia's Persian alphabet article(1) confirms that "khe" is pronounced as "X". Thank you for the example sound. -- Ron (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_alphabet