From xod@xxxx.xxxx Thu Feb 4 11:44:30 1999 X-Digest-Num: 52 Message-ID: <44114.52.201.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:44:30 -0500 (EST) From: xod From: And Rosta > > > Charles Hope > > > > Thus, there must be a way to figure out how a native Lojban speaker would > > accent their English. > > But there is no native Lojban accent. More generally, there is no > Lojban accent: that is, it's not possible to say to someone "You have > a good/bad accent when you speak Lojban". Somebody could speak Lojban with improper pronounciation and stress. I have a difficult time pronouncing "xekri". Maybe an Arab would find that easy. The Japanese cannot distinguish spoken "r" and "l", because they don't have "l". Lojban does, so we know a native Lojban speaker wouldn't have this difficulty. What does English sound like when spoken with Lojban stress? Very emphasized, I think. Are there any sounds the American has and which Lojban lacks? Why do accents persist at all? Is it because of sounds which are simply absent in the parent language? > > --And. > ----- How's my typing? 1 (800) 243-6624