From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 20 15:34:28 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MeGDE-0005tC-12 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:34:28 -0700 Received: from ol.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.20] helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MeGDA-0005sT-NR for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:34:27 -0700 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:jwodder@iceland.freeshell.org [192.94.73.5]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7KMYF4c005491 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:34:15 GMT Received: (from jwodder@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.12.8/Submit) id n7KMYFjR004218 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:34:15 GMT Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:34:15 +0000 From: Minimiscience To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: proper pronunciation of apostrophe Message-ID: <20090820223413.GA28577@sdf.lonestar.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org References: <817821.10705.qm@web110504.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <817821.10705.qm@web110504.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by sdf.lonestar.org id n7KMYF4c005491 X-archive-position: 2065 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: minimiscience@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners de'i li 20 pi'e 08 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. tony hall .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > I'm not sure I understand the apostrophe correctly.  Is it pronounced with an > 'h' sound: > > .au is pronounced like "ow" > > is .a'u pronounced like "ahoo"? .skamyxatra That is correct. As a variant, the apostrophe may also be pronounced as any unvoiced fricative not already used in Lojban, e.g., [θ], the sound of the soft "th" in "thing" (not the hard "th" of "this"). mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun. -- li'a .e'i ca vondei .i mi na'e pu'i kufra loi vondei