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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: z and s
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This helps a lot.

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:52:56 -0800, Brandon Wirick <bwirick@calpoly.edu> wrote:
> It seems like people are getting hung up on the concepts of voiced and
> unvoiced consonants. It's a pretty simple concept: with voiced
> consonants, your vocal chords move and make noise; with unvoiced
> consonants, they don't. In English, voice accounts for all the
> significant difference between 's' and 'z', 'p' and 'b', 't' and 'd',
> 'k' and hard 'g', 'ch' and 'j', etc. Hope that helps.
> 
> .uairyk.