From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 23 19:36:39 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 23 May 2007 19:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hr3Bu-0004UT-Tc for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 19:36:39 -0700 Received: from smtp.mail.umich.edu ([141.211.14.81] helo=hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hr3Br-0004UJ-Qh for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 19:36:38 -0700 Received: FROM punchout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (punchout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.208]) BY hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4654FA31.97C17.5198 ; 23 May 2007 22:36:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 22:36:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex Joseph Martini X-X-Sender: alexjm@punchout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #80 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4633 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: alexjm@umich.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, 23 May 2007, Cortesi wrote: > On May 23, 2007, at 2:21 AM, :m.kornig@sondal.net wrote: >> the word "neighbor"... >> Is it "xa'ujbi" or "jbixa'u"? >> Which is better/more common? > Frankly I would not want to call a neighbor by either term. > Two words closer to sound of a large gob being spat I've never heard... Well, to each language its own sound... To English ears Lojban tends to sound consonant heavy, but just imagine what English would sound like to a native Lojban speaker -- the vowels all squishy and sliding into each other and always mixing together. And no nice firm .xy sound anywhere! zo'o mu'o mi'e .aleks.