Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 37229 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2006 12:39:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m29.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Jul 2006 12:39:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jul 2006 12:39:22 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxNhr-0006q3-GE for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:39:16 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxNhH-0006oO-TA; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:38:43 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxNgL-0006mb-Pc for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:37:44 -0700 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.181]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxNfz-0006lm-SZ for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:37:28 -0700 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id 39so953498pyu for ; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.110.13 with SMTP id n13mr816193pym; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.14.17 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 05:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d17560607030537i64436e5fx3ca8587c82da2a5f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 09:37:18 -0300 In-Reply-To: <44A8818D.60800@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060702215144.96228.qmail@web81304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44A8818D.60800@gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 11873 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:0:0:0 X-eGroups-From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" Reply-To: jjllambias@gmail.com Subject: [lojban] Re: [hobyrne@gmail.com: Alphabet] X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=WPXYboKcge1woUKGJxqO-FKxVNz565qx3Qt8HkjURKWXdnd2nA X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 26298 Content-Length: 1009 Lines: 28 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 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.