From kesuari@yahoo.com.au Thu Aug 19 00:16:10 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web52004.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.39.60]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bxh9d-00024c-TA for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:16:10 -0700 Message-ID: <20040819061942.58659.qmail@web52004.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.147.117.39] by web52004.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:19:42 EST Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:19:42 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tristan=20Mc=20Leay?= Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Anyone there? To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <20040818231250.GA13226@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 697 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: kesuari@yahoo.com.au Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > It's actually the lack of short 'i' that pisses me > off. :-) Why is it that [I] isn't an allophone of /i/? For most people in the world, they're close enough that it's hard to distinguish anyway... (I'm a native English speaker, and out of context, I find hearing [i] vs [I] difficult; [I] is many times easier for me to produce than [i] though.) -- Tristan Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com