From lojban-out@lojban.org Fri Mar 28 10:05:39 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_5); 28 Mar 2003 18:05:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 71042 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2003 18:05:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2003 18:05:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 18:05:39 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18yyEV-0007Jx-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:05:39 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18yyEQ-0007JZ-00; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:05:34 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:05:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18yyEH-0007JI-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:05:25 -0800 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:05:25 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Alice proofreading Message-ID: <20030328180525.GO16560@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030327182447.GD9604@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-archive-position: 4669 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:01PM -0500, Craig wrote: > >> Prunus cerasus. There's also P. avium but pe'i more people > >> would recognize "cerasus" as that's where the word "cherries" > >> comes from. > > >OK. How is that pronounced in Latin, because I bet it's not > >ceraso. > > Classical Latin would have "kErasus" if it is a short a and > "kerAsus" if it is a long a. OK, then why are people using ceraso in lojban instead of keraso? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi