From arntrich@stud.ntnu.no Sat Aug 04 14:15:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: arntrich@stud.ntnu.no X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 4 Aug 2001 21:15:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 73954 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2001 21:15:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Aug 2001 21:15:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO brev.stud.ntnu.no) (129.241.56.70) by mta1 with SMTP; 4 Aug 2001 21:15:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by brev.stud.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB69B81C6 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jeeves.stud.ntnu.no (jeeves [129.241.56.14]) by brev.stud.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1238149 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (arntrich@localhost) by jeeves.stud.ntnu.no (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta12) with ESMTP id f74LF2e11603 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:15:02 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: jeeves.stud.ntnu.no: arntrich owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:15:02 +0200 (MEST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Transliterations survey In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 From: Arnt Richard Johansen On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > > > In many of the examples below, one of the candidate transliterations > > have a diphthong where the original has a diphthong. I feel very > > strongly against this. > > I don't see how anybody can ever argue for a deviation from the source > language sounds, unless the deviation is imposed upon us by the lerfu. Oops, that was a typo. Thanks for making me aware of it. The first sentence of the paragraph above should read: "In many of the examples below, one of the candidate transliterations have a diphthong where the original has a monophthong."