Subject: Re: [lojban] Transliterations survey

From: Robin Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:05:51 +0300

On Monday 06 August 2001 21:38, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, 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
> >
> > 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
>
> Where do you see a contradiction? I wear BLU,djinz.

And here in Turkey some people even wear "siyah blujin" (black "blue jeans").

robin.tr