From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Wed Jan 31 22:36:43 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 1 Feb 2001 06:36:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 81464 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2001 06:36:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Feb 2001 06:36:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Feb 2001 06:36:41 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id BAA06132 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 01:42:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 01:42:23 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Still wondering about '... Message-ID: <20010201014220.A6082@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20010131215011.H20123@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20010201120038.A17013@ljm.qqjane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010201120038.A17013@ljm.qqjane.net>; from ljm@ljm.qqjane.net on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:00:38PM +0800 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:00:38PM +0800, Lin Zhemin wrote: > A single pause between two vowels, i.e. try to distinguish > time and ta'im (N.B. time would be transcripted as 'thai~m' as > ta'im is 'tha?im', where ? is a short pause and is not a glottal stop.) So it's just an avoidance of dipthongs, then? Cool, thanks. -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