From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Aug 05 08:59:27 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IHiVq-0002n1-KO for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:59:27 -0700 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.225]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IHiVn-0002ms-Qa for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:59:26 -0700 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so989144wxd for ; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:59:22 -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=eOG4SP1BanR2iaW7dPnhQLOw8CECS+qExPcWPK30V5MTXfPmbLiDgO35T2ywmVLi8mrnRnNR2zwC1hdT0Yd1mubWhZa+CRbDkoniRtwMmHn36gG4t9WBPLY8NBwHKN25IE8QD3MGIgw2kc8xb/AyqZsB0ake5LmhmvBXBYGx0ck= 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=UUY96KSd7+cy8xXbTAF0va7cBp26+tqPdtwTVGxGi+mI+aJ73IbdhobM00HH20v+czxtG7Pm6lcPhZpu1rlgDWMBib1mefUTXuzM9kevEeXhpv8bU4KY+CNejSk/osvnkS1+LhD69gmK22tUKiOd1FvM3jkOK+kg4qGVfaVZdtQ= Received: by 10.70.28.9 with SMTP id b9mr8389596wxb.1186329561854; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.38.7 with HTTP; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 08:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f91285f0708050859x5eca8a1esb62884a5387f1c57@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 16:59:21 +0100 From: "Vid Sintef" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lo morsi spitaki In-Reply-To: <20070804181112.GL26253@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f91285f0708040832r77533308nc549ae6a233a2982@mail.gmail.com> <20070804181112.GL26253@digitalkingdom.org> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5298 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: picos.picos@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 8/4/07, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > I love the way he says ".i ninmu ki'a > > *le'o*", because he doesn't look to be aggressive at all! > > That was deliberate; if you're going to have a word for > aggressiveness, you shouldn't need the facial expressions and tone > of voice. > Call it artistic style, or something. I know. It's an artistic deliberation, and nicely amusing too. He is again somehow terrific when looking at, uninterestingly, you trying to waken the spitaki. (Also I noticed Mr. Cowan sometimes pronounced the "r" sound like the French or German one, in which case an accompanying "x" would become the "h" as in "trixe" (03:21), otherwise the American rhotic sound.)