Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:00:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18fktA-0004EJ-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:00:12 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:00:12 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Intonation of xu (was Re: (no subject)) Message-ID: <20030203180012.GZ13520@digitalkingdom.org> References: <104.260f0093.2b6b37f3@aol.com> <20030201010422.GH9156@digitalkingdom.org> <200302040221.42754.sam@vilain.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302040221.42754.sam@vilain.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 52 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 837 On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:21:42AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 14:04, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:22:43PM -0500, JJ121449@aol.com wrote: > > > Sorry, another question. Probably seems stupid, but... Do you use > > > English intonation for questions? The reference grammar says the > > > xu, ma, or whatever is enough, but people being people I wonder if > > > anyone bothers to overcome their native speech patterns. > > > > I try to avoid it if I can. > > Does the result sound like Steve Wright? :-) Who's that? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi