From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Oct 15 07:39:05 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GZ78r-0002Z9-34 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:39:05 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.42]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GZ78k-0002Yc-IH for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:39:04 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.103] (cpe-66-68-161-49.austin.res.rr.com [66.68.161.49]) by ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9FEcu8W001588 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:38:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <45324800.8030906@hypermetrics.com> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:38:56 -0500 From: Hal Fulton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20041209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: ' vs. x and t vs. d References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3638 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: hal9000@hypermetrics.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 10/14/2006 4:22:15 AM Central Standard Time, > ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: >> >> It's like explaining difference between [d] and [t] to a 40 year old >> Chinese who never heard any language except his native. >> >> mi'e .ianis. > > There may be some similarity - in difficulty, perhaps - but there is no > parallel between the pairs of sounds. I think difficulty was what he was talking about. Hal