Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JPHCj-00007K-NE for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:59:14 -0800 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JPHCc-0008WS-Ru for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:59:13 -0800 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c47so5705wra.20 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:59:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=zpMUeyi8BQate1p4Jf3EKW56wNvoU62tB8VylsD5eW8=; b=n1n6Tgu99Vu2UtvfF6lVbNhsYRtEfLwtyQYcHbF7+uSu7ZusU8iKdnPcCeQFKH/fk23KE08deIjY/dKt43xEqhwQaiFp3TqUDSI4oyNBakxbGIscczhBfPYTbr9gBNUn5Rctkgwi9cfgXK6EqkVhBVqmdCv+2WO6D4aZQr6Pls8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=h1xjUe8uVyOrZZN3O6ARvQfuj8GRbY1SotxoAaG3U5GUr7jJj9rQBCdG2xeGLVZi7uSSWiVRg6u9TUUR2vf5rqSXcAlC8RZwDsXAOjcveeBbMazKNZQcDkoDbKze6zC5A1gqur+D4Po0Sd5KXfAPHhKto529OGUXC4ct1leVi2s= Received: by 10.140.199.19 with SMTP id w19mr1799832rvf.219.1202907543603; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:59:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.69.2 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:59:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <96f789a60802130459s6c4bbc0ao75ee68b9b603e791@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:59:03 -0500 From: "Michael Turniansky" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Silly things to say in Lojban In-Reply-To: <925d17560802130335x5513fd07x5ba254cdfe1ab7bf@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <96f789a60802121224m76b593c7p2aae501c7101c620@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560802130335x5513fd07x5ba254cdfe1ab7bf@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 349 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 611 On Feb 13, 2008 6:35 AM, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On 2/12/08, Michael Turniansky wrote: > > (Anybody but me notice how many Jews...errrr.. "ju"'s there are in the > > gismu list?) > > Chinese Jews, for the most part. Also I understand most of the shes > are of Chinese origin. > Yes, that had always been my assumption as to the prevalence of the "j" in the gismu list. There are several Chinese sounds that might have been transliterated into (either singly or in digraphs) the lojban "j" -- The pinyin j, zh, and possibly q and x? --gejyspa