[lojban-beginners] Re: Anyone there?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:12:07PM -0700, Robert Griffin wrote:
> Yeah, 'Robin' is the diminutive for 'Robert'.
> 
> I now understand why you miss the ability in Lojban to represent the
> short 'i'. Your name, quasi-phonetically in American English, is
> 'rah-bin'. I suppose .rabyn. or .robyn. might vaguely approximate the
> sound, especially when approximating those dialects which drop all
> unstressed vowels towards .y.

*UGH*.  I *detest* my name as "rabyn".  The fact that my younger brother
used to say it that when when whining about something I'd done is
probably relevant.  :-)

"robyn" is worse.  So yeah, you get the idea.

-Robin

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