From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jul 03 05:59:13 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxO0p-0007Yx-ON for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:58:51 -0700 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxO0o-0007Yp-FR for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:58:51 -0700 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id r28so552434nza for ; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:58:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FxW/WWSxE5KDhTKgR3ZGA1CXYUhpI2yDiR0DoGC77MzCqiJPzZCpCve7251sMxWKUv52FTOKhhMYC5cgdXdpbSCZZiRZUTsJchEIXZvsrqgGE7dXaJS4mJwerbQ2ZL86l6DThtgNuHKiAygIlrWYgpLIgZ8nDFfau+tUdbpkzAo= Received: by 10.36.133.20 with SMTP id g20mr3124218nzd; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? ( [70.224.74.45]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 14sm8524055nzp.2006.07.03.05.58.47; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44A913D8.7060407@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:55:52 -0400 From: Hugh O'Byrne User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: [hobyrne@gmail.com: Alphabet] References: <20060702215144.96228.qmail@web81304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44A8818D.60800@gmail.com> <925d17560607030537i64436e5fx3ca8587c82da2a5f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560607030537i64436e5fx3ca8587c82da2a5f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 11874 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: hobyrne@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Jorge Llambías wrote: > On 7/2/06, Hugh O'Byrne wrote: > >> John E Clifford wrote: >> > (English â€" indeed all written languages â€" >> > are more like Chinese than we at first notice). >> >> Point: inquiry. >> >> I don't really understand what you mean by that last bit in the >> parentheses. Perhaps this is not the forum for it, but I'd be >> interested to learn what property (properties?) of Chinese you're >> referring to. > > > I tnhik he mnaes taht we dno't rlealy raed wdors lteter by ltteer, but > we rethar raed tehm as wolhe wrods. For emplxae, if you slaffhe the > lerttes isdine wrods, a txet rmianes spsurringily esay to ustenrdad, as > lnog as you keep the frist and lsat letetr of ecah wrod in its palce. > (Dno't > try tihs in Labjon utnil you are vrey flenut, thguoh!) > > mu'o mi'e xorxes :-D I love it! It reminds me of the Anguish Languish, though it's demonstrating a different aspect. http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/anguish.html mi'e .xius. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.