From james.chittleborough@student.adelaide.edu.au Tue Sep 21 00:52:19 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.181]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C9fRi-0003An-Ij for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:52:19 -0700 Received: from [10.125.125.58] (ppp45-88.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.45.88]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8L7qF4Y030026 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:22:16 +0930 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <000401c49f42$110a92a0$fc4d883e@crh37> References: <000401c49f42$110a92a0$fc4d883e@crh37> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <26DB8E52-0BA3-11D9-AD2A-0050E460D30D@student.adelaide.edu.au> From: "J. Chittleborough" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: gismu abbreviations? Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:22:14 +0930 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-archive-position: 789 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: james.chittleborough@student.adelaide.edu.au Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners First of all... um, hi, everyone, I'm new. I'm an Aussie student who stumbled across Lojban on wikipedia and thought it looked interesting, particularly when compared to my Media Studies essays... Anyway, regarding being Scottish... personally, I rather prefer my distinctly un-Scottish climate, and though I don't know where Ms Wood lives, I have a hunch she might too... ;o) Hmmm... would we be able to get away with an IPA [C] instead of the IPA [x] for a lojban "x"? To my rather ham-fisted understanding of such things, the former is pretty close to a unvoiced English "y" or the [hj] sound in "huge", so it's easier on those of us who didn't learn to cough up hairballs during childhood. ;o) mu'o mi'e .djim.tcitlbarax. >> Whoops... thanks for the reminder. I remember that c >> has a "sh" sound when I'm reading and speaking, but I >> still flub it up sometimes when I'm typing myself. >> But that's nothing compared to the x! Hopefully I'll >> eventually stop sounding like I'm coughing up a hairball. >> > > Just become Scottish - it makes life a lot easier! It's the sound we > have at the end of "Loch", and the exclamation "ach". > > I also use it for my surname - I reckon it's closest to an H. > > mu'o mi'e .kris.xaulet.