Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postman.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.87]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 198Mpa-0006Gc-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:10:47 -0700 Received: from hamwpne1 (pc1-oxfd1-5-cust27.oxfd.cable.ntl.com [62.254.134.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor-online.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3NGAgps009753 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:10:43 +0200 (CEST) From: "Philip Newton" Organization: datenrevision GmbH & Co. OHG To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:10:29 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A Newbie's First Impressions Message-ID: <3EA6D715.28884.224BA19@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20030423063729.GA17388@swbell.net> References: <20030422183719.62722.qmail@web13008.mail.yahoo.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-archive-position: 238 X-Approved-By: pnewton@gmx.de 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: pnewton@gmx.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 368 On 23 Apr 2003 at 1:37, xavin@xavin.adhockery.net wrote: > With the 'x' sound: I do not see the problem with making it generally > the same as 'h' in English. You can get collisions with .y'y., then; "paxa" (16) would sound like "pa'a" (in addition to), since English "h" is a common pronunciation of .y'y. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- filip.niutyn.