From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 20 19:58:51 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MeKL4-0001EH-WC for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:58:51 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.122]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MeKL1-0001Dk-UK for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:58:50 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090821025841462.KQYY16591@cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com> for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:58:41 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B96E452D for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:58:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: proper pronunciation of apostrophe Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:58:38 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908202258.39707.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 2072 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thursday 20 August 2009 22:13:32 MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In my experience the voiced sounds in English are "soft", the unvoiced ones > "hard". "hard" and "soft" shouldn't be used for voicing. The Russians in the room will think you mean something else. Pierre