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RE: Languages' names for Lojban (was: RE: [lojban] French word for "Lojban"



> From: michael helsem [mailto:graywyvern@hotmail.com]
> 
> > >This seems a good point to ask one of my favorite questions: how is
> > >"Unix" pronounced in various languages?
> 
> sance zoigy eunuchs gy bau le glico

For Americans, Australians, Irish, Scousers & me but not other British. 
An interlocutor of mine could not understand why I, in surprise, thought
he'd told me he'd been watching a TV documentary on Unix in India, since
for him, _eunuchs_ - eunuchs being the actual subject of the documentary 
- contrasts with _Unix_.

--And.