From xod@thestonecutters.net Thu Aug 19 15:44:14 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thestonecutters.net ([63.251.19.112] helo=chert.thestonecutters.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bxvdm-0005SW-GM for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:44:14 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (p78-77.acedsl.com [66.114.78.77]) by chert.thestonecutters.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A70814800C for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:20:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41252D2C.3040608@thestonecutters.net> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:43:56 -0400 From: Zero Jelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Anyone there? References: <20040819203010.27338.qmail@web52005.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040819203010.27338.qmail@web52005.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-archive-position: 715 X-Approved-By: xod@thestonecutters.net 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: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Tristan Mc Leay wrote: >The best way to approach the phonetics of english >dialects is with a clean slate. My dialect also has a >just-about pure length distinction between say dad and >mad, bud and barred, shed and shared, > Does this mean you're from the southern US? -- "This historic ground in New Mexico, scene of the first atomic explosion on earth...gave the most effective answer today to Japanese propaganda that radiations were responsible for deaths even after the day of the explosion, Aug. 6, and that persons entering Hiroshima had contracted mysterious maladies due to persistent radioactivity." -- NY Times, 12 Sep 45