From nicholas@uci.edu Mon Aug 20 14:25:50 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: nicholas@uci.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 20 Aug 2001 21:25:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 2765 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2001 21:25:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 20 Aug 2001 21:25:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4e.oac.uci.edu) (128.200.222.10) by mta1 with SMTP; 20 Aug 2001 21:25:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (nicholas@localhost) by e4e.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09509; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:25:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: e4e.oac.uci.edu: nicholas owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:25:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: To: John Cowan Cc: Subject: Re: [lojban] Brochure updates In-Reply-To: <3B817F3F.8060807@reutershealth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Nick NICHOLAS On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, John Cowan wrote: > Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > > And fu'ivla, for which the same holds. And which the Esperantists love to > > use to polemicise about how unpronouncable Lojban is. > And how right they are. This is the quality that JCB used to > describe as "crunchiness". !! I thought I came up with that independently. I think it's in the Lessons now. Well, someone'll Wiki it sooner or later. :-) > But at least we don't have words like "athomi". Yeah, I was flabbergasted when I saw that in the Loglan 1 Lojbab just gave me. Contrastive aspiration, in a language primarily spoken by English speakers. Just what the Doctor ordered... -- == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == Nick Nicholas, Breathing {le'o ko na rivbi fi'inai palci je tolvri danlu} nicholas@uci.edu -- Miguel Cervantes tr. Jorge LLambias