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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: capybara
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 22:09:17 -0400
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On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21.52.40 EDT xabju wrote:
> Is it just me, or are syllables with both a closing diphthong and a final
> sonorant (especially a rhotic) hard to pronounce and mildly ugly-sounding=
?
> I have a hard time pronouncing /=CA=92a=CA=8Ar/ as anything but [=CA=92aw=
=C9=99r], which I
> guess is okay, since the latter doesn't seem to misparse. Still, I'll vot=
e
> against jaurxarju and for tciuiro.

Do you have the same problem when the /r/ is followed by a vowel, as in=20
"restaurar"? (Though it's a tap, not a trill, in this word.)

Pierre

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