From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Sat Mar 17 07:54:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 17 Mar 2001 15:54:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 99001 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2001 15:54:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Mar 2001 15:54:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta01-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.41) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Mar 2001 16:55:33 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.252.12.195]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with SMTP id <20010317155427.HRSI283.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:54:27 +0000 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Some questions Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:53:32 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 In-Reply-To: From: "And Rosta" > la lojbab cusku di'e > >the consensus was that the best sixth vowel after a five vowel > >system would have to be the central one, which unstressed (as it > >always is in Lojban) is a schwa. > Maybe it was the best sixth, but you should have stopped at 5. > co'o mi'e xorxes It shouldn't be forgotten that there are 7 vowels, the realization of the seventh vowel being nonsensically defined as any vowel phone that cannot serve as the realization of one of the other 6 vowels. I use [y]: _zbasu_ = [zybasu]. --And.