On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 9:12 AM= , la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:

It's March 31 today. It's 8 am = in San=A0Francisco,=A04 pm in London, 7 pm in Moscow. No matter in what tim= e zone you are right now (e.g. Japan has 16 hour difference from the Pacifi= c time zone so this message is as serious as never before) this day is the = day of ...

Great news for Lojbanists.

We have to announc= e that a general agreement of mutual support has been reached between Apple= Inc. and the LLG.
According to this agreement Apple Inc. will tr= anslate the interface of all it's devices on the market to Lojban which= will make them true pieces of artificial intelligence. Also it'll remo= ve any future problems with Apple Maps because if a person can't read t= he maps in Lojban it's the problem of that person, not the maps.

From the lojbanists' part the word {.aple} will be = added to jbovlaste.
It's meaning will be
"x1 i= s an apple of breed x2 bitten by x3 (by default by Tim Cook, the current CE= O of Apple Inc.)"

We also got two requests for cooperation from two stran= ge companies, lojbanised names of which are {la mikrysofto} and {la samsung= a}.
We have to say that we are not going to collaborate neither w= ith any small Soviet companies nor with computer garlics that for sure don&= #39;t taste right.

Other news are coming from BPFK.

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Due to the depletion of free cmavo space 8 new phonemes are added= to lojbanic alphabet, namely
@ - bilabial click sound
| - dental click sound
! - alveolar click sound
|| - la= teral click sound
All of those sounds can be also nasalised in wh= ich case they are prefixed with {m} or {n} that are considered part of the = sound, not a separate phoneme. So the total number of new phonemes is 8.

We know that for some Lojbanists those sounds will pose= a problem. But as everything has been already decided upon let's have = a practice.
As for now we have only two proposed words with these= sounds.

1. The word {m@a} is an attitudinal that denotes "= kiss".
m@a. selmaho UI1. "The expression of kissing som= eone."
I attached the sounding of this word to this post.
Please listen now to the mp3 attached below !

2. Another word is
m@o. selmaho @UI1. "The expressio= n of something tasting pleasant."
Example:
{lo pit= nanba m@o cu barda} - "The pizza (yum! yum!) is big."

This selmaho @UI1 will be exclusively used for attitudinals of sensory= input/output.

You can learn more about other clic= k sounds and how to correctly pronounce them from the following video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D31zzMb3U0iY

<= div>and from the wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cli= ck_consonant

These click sounds can give us not less than 80 new cma= vo in the form of CV.

Additionally, click sounds w= ill give future Lojbanists from Africa some feeling of closeness to our uni= versal language.

Isn't it what Lojban should aim for?

m@a = to all of you!
mu'o

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mu'o = mi'e .aionys.

.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi= .luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father= . :D )