From b.gohla@gmx.de Fri Mar 28 10:21:18 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_5); 28 Mar 2003 18:21:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 37529 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2003 18:19:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2003 18:19:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (213.165.65.60) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 18:19:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 31908 invoked by uid 65534); 28 Mar 2003 18:19:44 -0000 Received: from B7fa4.pppool.de (HELO linux) (213.7.127.164) by mail.gmx.net (mp008-rz3) with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 19:19:44 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Alice proofreading Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:31:39 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: de, en, la, art-lojban MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <03032819313901.05904@linux> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gohla?= Reply-To: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=36703491 X-Yahoo-Profile: badbirdde -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2003-03-28 03:57, 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. Seeing as the short A results in Spanish "*cierzo" and the my dictionary says it is a short 'a' by nature, and there is no positional= =20 length either, right?. > long a in "cerezo", meaning "cherry tree", I'm guessing it's like lojban > "kerasus". That said, many people reading latin use the (worng) tc for c > before i,e. Reconstructive work proves that this cannot have been the > pronunciation, at least before Sardinian split off from other Western > Romance languages. - --=20 Article 5 from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Bj=C3=B6rn Gohla (Wissenschaftler, Weltb=C3=BCrger) ; key i= d: 834F4976;=20 key fingerprint: 9FF4 FEDA CCDF DA0E 14D5 8129 6C14 3C39 834F 4976; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+hJULbBQ8OYNPSXYRAjGxAJ9NvDAR7/PQeXDWwa2HW1tVCT9itwCcCHMg +oBnvOq8VNJP7H+xiIbLONU=3D =3DkdLO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----