From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Fri Jan 19 15:44:55 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_1_2); 19 Jan 2001 23:44:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 4787 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2001 23:44:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 19 Jan 2001 23:44:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 19 Jan 2001 23:44:54 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id SAA29014; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:50:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:50:15 -0500 To: Invent Yourself Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] speech synthesizer Message-ID: <20010119185015.R29655@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20010119182935.Q29655@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from xod@sixgirls.org on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:30:37PM -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:30:37PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:13:42PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > > > > > > If the website will not take a word with an apostrophe in it, the website has a > > > > bug. Lots of languages have apostrophes, and in some it makes a difference in > > > > pronunciation (e.g. wont vs. won't, Breton ch=Lojban c, Breton c'h=Lojban x). > > > > > > > > > "wont" and "won't" are pronounced identically. > > > > Not in my universe. wont == want. > > > You're Canadian. You probably rhyme "about" with "oat". I currently live in silicon valley. Randomly chosen American in my office agrees with me. I have no distinguishable accent except my use of the word 'zed'. OED, btw, says that it's an American variation. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP