From BestATN@aol.com Wed Apr 10 16:14:33 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: BestATN@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 10 Apr 2002 23:14:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 62353 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2002 23:14:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Apr 2002 23:14:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r03.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.99) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Apr 2002 23:14:32 -0000 Received: from BestATN@aol.com by imo-r03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v32.5.) id r.16b.bde86b2 (18556) for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:14:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <16b.bde86b2.29e6214f@aol.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:14:23 EDT Subject: brify To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_16b.bde86b2.29e6214f_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 121 From: BestATN@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1155066 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbaner --part1_16b.bde86b2.29e6214f_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit and: it doesn't surprise me in the least. the same thing happened with german speakers of esperanto at the augsburg congress. they invariably pronounced the final '-e' as a schwa, even when the rest of their pronunciation was quite good. it used to irritate me a lot. if the same thing happens in lojban, it just shows how strong some habits are. steven lytle --part1_16b.bde86b2.29e6214f_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit and:
it doesn't surprise me in the least.  the same thing happened with german speakers of esperanto at the augsburg congress.  they invariably pronounced the final '-e' as a schwa, even when the rest of their pronunciation was quite good.  it used to irritate me a lot.  if the same thing happens in lojban, it just shows how strong some habits are.
steven lytle --part1_16b.bde86b2.29e6214f_boundary--