From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Mar 11 10:31:15 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:31:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B1UxY-0007AB-Vk for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:31:08 -0800 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:31:08 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: pronouncing ? as th Message-ID: <20040311183108.GV11847@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7204 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:40:01AM -0000, la_okus wrote: > Then I read on the wiki that .kreig.daniyl. pronounces it as `th' in > `think'. I find that this sound can be made much more quickly, > allowing me to zip over the "ba'o" of ba'orzu'e to make ba'orZU'e. Unlike the other two people who have responded, this doesn't bother me in the least, and I doubt it would make you any harder to understand for me. > As a side effect, my lojban sounds a lot more like tolkien's > beautiful elvish languages. To me it just sounds like you have a lisp or something. 8) > I am making this thread to ask what you all think of my decision. Will > lojban split into an assortment of accents, and if so, won't this > happen anyway when lojban gains more speakers outside the US? One would hope so; it was rather designed that way. > PS. While I'm here, I'd like to clear up something about stress. In > the lujvo "dadysli", is it pronounced dadYsli or DADysli? Does that > little schwa get counted? IIRC, 'y' is never counted for purposes of stress. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui