From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 23 08:16:18 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 23 May 2007 08:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HqsZN-0002MB-5P for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 08:16:11 -0700 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.245]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HqsZ0-0002Lf-Tz for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 08:15:56 -0700 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b21so62869ana for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 08:15:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LYFCaO+Axdz4i7ykycEeh2pEjzWh4wx1UYbLzNKEihyZiGvNHdLNDCyDXuDu43NhJcyL9i6SCxNOkoGsAc3goHq8iOdmqezbo37EtKGkhFDFpsccxI/fxwqWri5BGbIQ31udSdJKAkKixtPaItlmYJ8wNXxMFzEZrFwDV494Tkk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ek8KV5KvM2sh7z0cLXFz+rVKs4u4RGxx/LduHQ92WsmiBrfjEdbRlSsz4oh9cEawsbJuHRCzdM77ljfrpFKWwVSgW4FmI8LQx6JgnKN/ReTWBN489F1Ug+yxpAiTJ/7pxPUC9uWRrJhhZvoGbC/xMR3HxsdrMGC5i2pkuhBLMJ8= Received: by 10.100.121.12 with SMTP id t12mr512108anc.1179933334880; Wed, 23 May 2007 08:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.92.6 with HTTP; Wed, 23 May 2007 08:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <23dc8c770705230815r29db18f2u233a5f8c61635c0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 15:15:34 +0000 From: "Karl Naylor" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojbanization In-Reply-To: <537d06d00705230748m3663c21cyd795cb06767bbedd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f91285f0705230545h102beb4q6548c42b932bf299@mail.gmail.com> <537d06d00705230748m3663c21cyd795cb06767bbedd@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4612 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: karl.org@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 23/05/07, a couple of people wrote: > I wouldn't worry about phonological distortion, if I were you. Of course if it is particularly important that the pronunciation is exactly right, you could use {la'o}, which imports a phrase from another language with no modification at all: .i mi finti sepi'o la'o gy. LaTeX .gy. .i mi tcidu nelci la'o gy. xkcd .gy. vau zo'o