From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 28 16:43:24 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IbPUS-00073L-0H for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:43:24 -0700 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IbPUP-000735-GT for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:43:23 -0700 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m16so3685071waf for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:43:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=T2wN44cNSAvAiw36YOBWdOL8BSvAcWr8qzUxTzCzjKo=; b=UqljJfUw/biPr+ZG0iSK0e5LSOOOP7bBEe6eIXRbPmYbMda5kCYZn/IPPBEe+IF8hsoSJfnmU2+gX+uI/PnFe1Cy83SWZ0cjxOu18kqKOz46h2exYzQnlisOJMOucbs/JxJ7Cu/Bikfzn5fPQ9ALe+GjuP2YUV7cXndusLgg0eo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OWB4O2pNKA1Xx93II4OzpuBRDx8W0y18/JKd/7GVX35gE79/1GTXrqSL9eCNUn4DfTox6f75z5E//wDFk7DGePD75fI/nMY3IfYrDyXYG0Az+W0uhvhZhjqajTgVpoOpj2MAtw4H8P7sfId57MVsZoT2U0P3KkfUvn250+MOdyk= Received: by 10.114.148.1 with SMTP id v1mr538584wad.1191022996307; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.16.20 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:43:16 -0400 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: My Intro...with a request for help as a bonus. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <200709262152.54117.phma@phma.optus.nu> <00b101c80122$5da0e340$e18e6d0a@Starlight> <00b201c80127$907f6700$e18e6d0a@Starlight> <925d17560709270906k4e0cf6c6nca654087dc2da3@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5449 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 9/28/07, Atomichron B wrote: > Thanks so much for the quick response! > > Okay, so I'm trying it out once more...and thinking about the sounds more > than the individual letters helped me out quite a bit, I think. > > ty., cy., .ebu, ly., sy., .ibu. > > Is that a bit closer? > > - Chelsea You have it precisely! -Eppcott > > On 9/27/07, Matt Arnold wrote: > > On 9/27/07, Jorge Llambías wrote: > > > On 9/27/07, Marjorie Scherf wrote: > > > > > > > > Also, I think CLL recommends {vy.bu} to name the alien letter 'w'. > > > > > > Yes. > > > > > > ... > > > > However, it is at times unfortunate that > > > > it is illegal in fu'ivla because I was trying to make one for kazoo, > and > > > > zgikrkazu sounds a little strange to someone used to hearing kazoo > with the > > > > stress on the first of those two syllables. > > > > > > You can make it {zgikrkazu'u} if you want to keep the original stress. > > > > > > mu'o mi'e xorxes > > > > > > This is the beginners mailing list. A lot of beginners will usually > > talk about letters and characters, but that is a discussion which we > > will have with them in English. I don't think very many beginners are > > going to speak in Lojban to describe unused characters. It sounds like > > a good topic to take up on the main mailing list. > > > > -Eppcott > > > > > > > > > >