From ragnarok@pobox.com Fri Mar 28 10:36:00 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_5); 28 Mar 2003 18:36:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 75238 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2003 18:35:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2003 18:35:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 18:35:57 -0000 Received: from craig [209.42.200.67] by smtp.intrex.net (SMTPD32-7.13) id A60E7D6017E; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:35:58 -0500 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: Alice proofreading Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:35:58 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <03032819313901.05904@linux> Importance: Normal X-Declude-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com [209.42.200.67] From: "Craig" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl >> >> 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?. I don't actually speak the language, so I wouldn't know which is correct. H= owever, many of my friends have taken some and taught me the pronunciations= . Consequently, I have no dictionaries to check in. If it is a long a, then= there ought to be a macron over it; if not it is probably short. But, sinc= e I have read quite a bit on historical linguistics and proto-western-roman= ce is one of the standard examples, I am able to give reasonable guesses ab= out Spanish forms of these things - and I would guess from actual Spanish f= orms that it would be a long A, but I really don't know.