From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Nov 16 15:22:59 1995 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id PAA24864 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 15:22:52 -0500 Message-Id: <199511162022.PAA24864@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 31DCCDFF ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 16:15:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 19:59:14 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: tins and Thames To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Status: OR John: > No tin can is made of tin; most are tin-coated steel. About all you > can say is that it isn't aluminum. On that small island off the > coast of Europe, they talk of "tins", although I am told that even > there drinks come in cans. On that big sralo island, drinks do come in tinnies. My ocker relatives tried to persuade me to drink beer out of them, on the grounds that only poufters and sheilas drink out of glasses. > la .iVAN. cusku di'e > > When I'm speaking Bulgarian, I always call the river that flows > > through London /'temza/. It's not that I find the /T/ sound hard > > to pronounce (and I have no problem saying /D@ 'TeImz/ when I'm > > speaking English), [...] > Am I missing some subtle joke here? As an iggerant American, I was > always taught that "Thames" in that context is /tEmz/, although there > are towns in the U.S. that are called /TeImz/. It must be obscure Bulgarian humour. I promise, when I go to work my bus crosses the /temz/, rhymes with "stems". Nice to see that iVAN hasn't disappeared after all. --- And