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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban: it's not for babies.
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:16:32 -0400
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On Tuesday, September 03, 2013 18:02:18 MorphemeAddict wrote:
> I have never before heard that speech strings end in a glottal stop,
> especially for English or Lojban. The denpa pu is not always a glottal
> stop. It can be just absence of sound. No elision required.

In some Semitic languages speech strings do end in a glottal stop, though when 
Adon Olam was written it was silent: lines ending in "ra'" rhyme 
indiscriminately with lines ending in "rah". In Lojban, though, there's no 
need to pronounce a glottal stop at the end of a sentence.

Pierre
-- 
sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

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