From phma@oltronics.net Fri Jul 20 18:01:20 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 21 Jul 2001 01:01:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 76244 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 01:01:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jul 2001 01:01:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.86) by mta2 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 01:01:16 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 740BD3C55C; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:00:59 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: Subject: Re: [lojban] From the classics Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:54:20 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01072021005806.00922@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Nick NICHOLAS wrote: >And does the dialect thing mean Pierre is in the South? Where are Brer >Rabbit stories indigenous to again, anyway? I am, but it's more likely because I put some info about dialects in the phrasebook. I have a couple more; for instance in the west (tending to northwest, I think - anybody got a map of Lojbanistan?) they say "tirhahitha" for "tirxyxi'a", and in the north they tend to reduce unstressed vowels. The words "zunle kanla" as pronounced somewhere (I'm not sure where) are untranscribable in any alphabet I know; the "nl" is pronounced as a nasal l sound. What's the capital? Is Bertcad it? What are some other city names? phma