From cowan@ccil.org Sat Sep 02 11:10:02 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26836 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2000 18:10:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 2 Sep 2000 18:10:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta2 with SMTP; 2 Sep 2000 18:10:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA13297; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:03:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:03:33 -0400 (EDT) To: Ivan A Derzhanski Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: learning lojban [2] In-Reply-To: <39B088A4.8114153E@math.bas.bg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: > It still amazes my Slavic mind that the distinction between > a monophthong and a falling diphthong should count as fine. Probably because English has no tense monophthongs, near enough. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "[O]n the whole I'd rather make love than shoot guns [...]" --Eric Raymond