From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Dec 24 10:07:51 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:07:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J6riR-0005tN-AI for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:07:51 -0800 Received: from squid17.laughingsquid.net ([72.32.93.144]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J6riN-0005tB-Ac for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:07:51 -0800 Received: (qmail 28709 invoked by uid 48); 24 Dec 2007 10:07:41 -0800 Received: from c-24-63-92-33.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (c-24-63-92-33.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.63.92.33]) by webmail.ixkey.info (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:07:40 -0800 Message-ID: <20071224100740.z5xlmhtim8s0wcc0@webmail.ixkey.info> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:07:40 -0800 From: mungojelly@ixkey.info To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: nth letter of the alphabet References: <200712171602.42691.phma@phma.optus.nu> <925d17560712171328r181fe4dfg7c4bdfdf97edcc99@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560712171328r181fe4dfg7c4bdfdf97edcc99@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) X-Spam-Score: 1.8 X-Spam-Score-Int: 18 X-Spam-Bar: + X-archive-position: 14052 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mungojelly@ixkey.info Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Quoting Jorge Llambías : > I wouldn't count slaka bu as a letter, any more than preti bu for example, > because it corresponds to no phoneme of the language. denpa bu, on the > other hand, does correspond to a phoneme. It only occurs at the beginning > or end of words, but then y'y never occurs at the beginning or end of words > (I like to think of them as complementary allophones). .a'u cinri fa di'u pe'i .i mi tugni .iaro'e mu'o mi'e bret. 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.