From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Nov 06 11:07:21 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:07:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KyACP-0004WO-Ft for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:07:21 -0800 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KyACM-0004WF-ET for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:07:21 -0800 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 30so399394nfu.46 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:07:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=QppNOA7ED/8GWM5znFXEEQSsmj+mc1aDoKZ0+s2M198=; b=jifebC+2s1nP0mr//QJqTJPqgKIfRlMBFZII6gQe6FG0NbF0Lm0TP4uEAAhhWHUgJO vDNdTx9m0GPpLE47/PacOscn2Nu6nAPwiIIKFW+vEKvre9qctvfNinrsucvoowKHtzAg O23J5JjDnLymP+ElChqjBoVvU83/lWCE8iG78= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=HyOodDDOcts7VCuJ2xbnSXi1C4ZJ9BMq3lxr1IE/ef1KhVPVW1zdeb6UK2MbNbdYI1 JgscODxhWtI9ped4IMiGuYdOG9vpiXvPH/xBvgBXa6YQ8n0sFAdLwjQLrBGepglWuiI1 6jHav1RCgIbMr/6V0Tg2MND+pRm3eC8Z2/aJI= Received: by 10.210.90.10 with SMTP id n10mr2712630ebb.29.1225998436833; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:07:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.142.8 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:07:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5715b9300811061107s10620b1fq6564c03712beda7d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:07:16 -0500 From: "Luke Bergen" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] consonant diphthongs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_27558_20937872.1225998436828" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 993 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lukeabergen@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_27558_20937872.1225998436828 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I think I remember reading that the official word on consonant diphthongs do not exist in lojban but I have a question about one consonant combination. in the word "djica" (desire), how would you pronounce that first part? I can't seem to make the two consonants really separate without inserting an "y" type sound between them. Otherwise it ends up sounding kind of like the "dg" in "judge". Is this ok? - LB ------=_Part_27558_20937872.1225998436828 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I think I remember reading that the official word on consonant diphthongs do not exist in lojban but I have a question about one consonant combination.

in the word "djica" (desire), how would you pronounce that first part?  I can't seem to make the two consonants really separate without inserting an "y" type sound between them.  Otherwise it ends up sounding kind of like the "dg" in "judge".  Is this ok?

 - LB
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