From sv@vilain.net Mon Feb 03 16:40:02 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from 219-88-58-109.dialup.xtra.co.nz ([219.88.58.109] helo=themachine.vilain.net) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18fr85-0007NF-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:40:02 -0800 Received: from sv by themachine.vilain.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18fr7X-0000Sf-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:39:27 +1300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Sam Vilain To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Intonation of xu (was Re: (no subject)) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:39:26 +1300 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <104.260f0093.2b6b37f3@aol.com> <200302041246.33680.sam@vilain.net> <20030203235252.GW20552@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20030203235252.GW20552@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200302041339.26152.sam@vilain.net> X-archive-position: 61 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: sam@vilain.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:52, you wrote: > > > > Does the result sound like Steve Wright? :-) > > > Who's that? > > A comedian known for his incredibly dry tone and matching humour. > > Like, for instance; > > mi ponse lo tolcitno minciska vi terdi. zo'e ciska ko le pinsi. > I assume that's supposed to be two sentences. > I have the oldest adding-writer in the world. Make it that something > writes you on a pencil! Blast, back to the lojban lessons for me. I thought `minciska' might be = a=20 good word for `typewriter'. And that last sentence is supposed to be `it= =20 types in pencil'. --=20 Sam Vilain, sam@vilain.net "The personal computer market is about the same size as the total potato chip market. Next year it will be about half the size of the pet food market and is fast approaching the total worldwide sales of pantyhose" - James Finke,Pres.,Commodore Int'l Ltd.(1982) -