From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Sat Apr 13 10:04:48 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 13 Apr 2002 17:04:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 64290 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2002 17:01:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Apr 2002 17:01:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta07-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.47) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Apr 2002 17:01:54 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer ([62.253.85.66]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020413170151.PKXE29981.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@oemcomputer> for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:01:51 +0100 To: "lojban" Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: xirli'u selsanga Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:02:11 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020412001331.GF27861@digitalkingdom.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=77248971 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin Robin: > > **I haven't listened to this**, but I find it surprising if Bjoern is > > a German speaker, since it would imply that he is speaking Lojban > > without a German accent but with an English accent. I may well be > > wrong, but I suspect that Robin's perceptions of the e/y boundary are > > tainted by English. > > Actually, I have the ability to recognize phonemes from any language; > I'm a mutant in that regard. Also, his pronounciation of e is *much* > different internal to words. > > Regardless, I'd very much like you to listen to it and comment, because > I very much think you're wrong. 8) Also, a trailing schwa is very > germanic from what german I've heard. I have listened to it now, & very beautifully read it is too! But you were quite correct about the excess of schwas. Some of the /ir/ are improperly rendered too. Now, what gear do I need to record myself? (No unix bollocks, I'm a win98 neanderthal.) --And.