Subject: Re: [lojban] on Lojban pronunciation

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:06:18 -0400

At 02:04 PM 06/22/2000 -0400, [email-masked] wrote:
> <<BTW, I've been wondering anyway, how a conlang constructed by English
> speaking people includes 'rough' sounds like that /x/
> Don't they show kind of a masochist trait? ;-) >>
>
>No, just a practical one (disguised, as often with JCB, as an empirical
>discovery). We needed another sound, we were misrepresenting a lot of
>language contributions by lacking an /h/-ish sound, we needed a sound that
>would be distinct in usual channels (as ordinary /h/ is not) and, lo, we
>found that most languages had a /x/ but not an actual /h/. And so, /x/ it
>was.

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