From lojban-out@lojban.org Sat Jul 24 22:00:57 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 33918 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 05:00:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m22.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Jul 2004 05:00:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2004 05:00:57 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1Bob83-0004Nk-Cp for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:00:55 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1Bob7L-0004MR-GR; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:00:11 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.197] helo=mproxy.gmail.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1Bob77-0004M2-Ba for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:59:57 -0700 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m68so57395rne for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.1.71 with SMTP id 71mr10037rna; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <537d06d004072421593daf0598@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 06:59:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040724202210.GG11612@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII References: <20040724195407.GD11612@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040724200236.4757.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> <20040724202210.GG11612@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-archive-position: 8331 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: philip.newton@gmail.com X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Philip Newton From: Philip Newton Reply-To: philip.newton@gmail.com Subject: [lojban] Re: mekso samples. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22754 On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:22:10 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 01:02:36PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > CLL proposes {vy.bu} for "w" and {ge'o.o'obu} for omega. > > OK. I don't know enough about Greek lettering to have any idea why that > makes sense, but I'll go with it. Done. Presumably because in Ancient Greek, omega was simply a long version of omicron in pronunciation - /o/ vs. /oo/ (well, /o:/), or in Lojban, o vs. o'o. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- Philip Newton