From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Mon Aug 06 15:18:16 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 6 Aug 2001 22:18:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 16110 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2001 22:18:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Aug 2001 22:18:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta06-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.46) by mta3 with SMTP; 6 Aug 2001 22:18:06 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.41.128]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010806221804.WZNE6330.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:18:04 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Transliterations survey Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:17:07 +0100 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 In-Reply-To: <20010806092645.K28165@digitalkingdom.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" Robin: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:21:53PM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > > Nick: > > > One more thing is that canonical does tend to imply (to me) canonical > > > according to the local hegemony, rather than the local form. That means > > > minxen rather than minge, niu,orlynz. rather than nolinz., > > > > /n(i)u,o(r)LINZ/ can't be only the British pronunciation, since > > That's how I pronounce it, I think. You're Canadian, aren't you? If so, you don't belong to the local hegemony. > > My daddy was a gambling man; > > He sold my new blue jeans. > > [Ti tum ti tum ti tum ti tum] > > Way down in New Orleans > > Ack.. ug... aork... > > .oisai > > My mother was a tailor > she sold my new blue jeans > My father was a gambling man > way down in New Orleans I wonder why she sold my new blue jeans. At least my misremembered verion implies my daddy sold them to pay for his gambling. --And.