From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 19 12:22:18 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BxsUL-00083V-RZ for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:22:18 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:22:17 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Anyone there? Message-ID: <20040819192217.GG5127@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 706 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:12:07PM -0700, Robert Griffin wrote: > Yeah, 'Robin' is the diminutive for 'Robert'. > > I now understand why you miss the ability in Lojban to represent the > short 'i'. Your name, quasi-phonetically in American English, is > 'rah-bin'. I suppose .rabyn. or .robyn. might vaguely approximate the > sound, especially when approximating those dialects which drop all > unstressed vowels towards .y. *UGH*. I *detest* my name as "rabyn". The fact that my younger brother used to say it that when when whining about something I'd done is probably relevant. :-) "robyn" is worse. So yeah, you get the idea. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"