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selpa'i a =E9crit :
> la .ianek. cu cusku di'e
>> vu tagda ri la cangu xo finda'a i te zu janvi ke vi'e matni ni blaxadju
>>
>> How does it not sound like Lojban?
>
> It very much does.
>
> But what does Lojban sound like to someone who doesn't know it?
>
> It would be interesting to get someone without any prior knowledge of=20
> Lojban to give their impression of it. One could play some audio to=20
> them and then ask them to imitate it afterwards. I'm fairly confident=20
> that they would produce something slightly less close to Lojban than=20
> the thing you wrote. (I've heard some people say some very negative=20
> things about how Lojban sounds, so those would likely butcher it on=20
> purpose).
>
> Virtually anyone could try this experiment at home, as it shouldn't be=20
> hard to find people who don't know Lojban.
>
> mu'o mi'e la selpa'i
>
I'm not sure whether this is relevant to the discussion, but one day I=20
made a (Spanish speaking) linguistic friend (who studies and listened to=20
many different languages) listen to one of your lojbanic recordings,=20
Selpa'i (the one of Godot IIRC), and asked him what did he think of=20
spoken Lojban. His reply was "nothing special, it reminds me of some=20
languages spoken in Africa". :P

ni'o mi'e la .ilmen. mu'o

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