Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 03 May 2003 11:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([209.58.150.153] ident=qmailr) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19C26t-0002TM-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:51:47 -0700 Received: (qmail 15151 invoked by uid 534); 3 May 2003 18:51:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 12:51:47 -0600 From: Jay F Kominek To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: mi tadni la lojban Message-ID: <20030503185147.GD15743@miranda.org> References: <20030503174440.GA49390@allusion.net> <20030503181310.18463.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030503181310.18463.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com> Accept-Language: art-lojban, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-archive-position: 293 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.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: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 688 > > > > >I was actually remarking that both > > > > >{brus} and {bris} bear little ressemblence to the English > > > > >pronunciation of the name. > > > >Well, here in le mergu'e, we pronounce Bruce like lojban brus. > > > You should know, but I can't help feeling that you don't. > > Where I'm from (Southwest mergu'e), the u in bruce is pronounced > > just like the oo in food. (lojban u; brus.). > Everywhere in the U.S. that I've been, Bruce is pronounced 'broos', which > Lojbanized, would be brus. Ok folks, the spelling/pronunciation issue has been successfully beat to death. -- Jay Kominek UNIX is all about covering up the fact that you can't type.