From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Apr 23 13:38:18 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 198R0U-0000Ix-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:38:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:38:18 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A Newbie's First Impressions Message-ID: <20030423203818.GD28930@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20030422183719.62722.qmail@web13008.mail.yahoo.com> <20030423063729.GA17388@swbell.net> <20030423161909.GA24088@adhockery.net> <3EA6F884.2090309@bluewin.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EA6F884.2090309@bluewin.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 247 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:33:08PM +0200, G Dyke wrote: > Chris Evans wrote, concerning {x}: > > >Techinically, it's a "voiced k". But, > > > > > > > Whatever it is, it certainly isn't voiced. If you compare these > sequences: > > poo pfoo foo > tart chart shark > k kx x > > x bears the same relation to k as f does to p. It is an unvoiced > (wherever k is pronounced) fricative. In lojban, it's probably perfectly legal to voice it (there's nothing else similar). -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi