[lojban-beginners] Re: Silly things to say in Lojban

["Michael Turniansky" <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Feb 13, 2008 6:35 AM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/12/08, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> 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