From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 18: 9:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475C637B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB329GF40941; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:09:16 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:09:15 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Peter Lai Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org '" Subject: RE: Tyr'd with all this pronunciation thread In-Reply-To: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019EF3@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Peter Lai wrote: > well with all of us being geeks, i'm sure we could elicit the help of Dr. > Noam Chomsky from MIT and help build a new international langauge that > follow precise rules (e.g. that of a computer language) in syntax and > structures. Something that makes sense to the brain. IIRC, Gallic is the international language that Larry Niven envisages in his SF novels... (its been a while since I read them...) > For example, the same movement of the mouth and tongue are used to > pronounce "dead" and "crap" in mandarin, but they sound differently > and mean different things. There you go. You learn something new every day :-) -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message