From pycyn@aol.com Mon Jun 05 07:49:47 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5520 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2000 14:49:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 Jun 2000 14:49:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo15.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.5) by mta2 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2000 14:49:12 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo15.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.9.) id a.63.680da91 (4586) for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:48:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <63.680da91.266d17db@aol.com> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:48:59 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Again: transcription of Chinese cmene To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com In a message dated 00-06-05 04:08:22 EDT, iad writes: << For example, how about lojbanising Chinese _-n_ as {m}, so that _-ng_ can unambiguously be {n}? >> Nice. Are there other consonantal contrasts we are overlooking? But is there no final /m/ in Mandarin? I suppose, /dim sum/, being food, is Cantonese. More to the point, can we get a good vowel spread with the limited lb set?