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Re: [lojban] Transliterations survey



On Monday 06 August 2001 21:38, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote:
> > Nick:
> > > One more thing is that canonical does tend to imply (to me) canonical
> > > according to the local hegemony, rather than the local form. That means
> > > minxen rather than minge, niu,orlynz. rather than nolinz.,
> >
> > /n(i)u,o(r)LINZ/ can't be only the British pronunciation, since
> >
> >  My daddy was a gambling man;
> >  He sold my new blue jeans.
> >  [Ti tum ti tum ti tum ti tum]
> >  Way down in New Orleans
>
> Where do you see a contradiction? I wear BLU,djinz.

And here in Turkey some people even wear "siyah blujin" (black "blue jeans").

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