From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Feb 14 11:39:17 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:39:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LYQM9-0005tS-NG for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:39:17 -0800 Received: from mx.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.19] helo=sdf.lonestar.org ident=root) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LYQM2-0005tG-G5 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:39:17 -0800 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:jwodder@sverige.freeshell.org [192.94.73.4]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1EJd0DB013177 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:39:00 GMT Received: (from jwodder@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.2/8.12.8/Submit) id n1EJd0ld020069 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:39:00 GMT Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:38:59 +0000 From: Minimiscience To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: New LCS podcast/blog; contributors wanted Message-ID: <20090214193857.GA17092@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <646661980902140541n2a9188a7j699efc8af12da458@mail.gmail.com> <8CB5CD5AE5CF45B-7D8-2829@WEBMAIL-MZ03.sysops.aol.com> <537d06d00902141104p73e5a03dwfb3300c5d0a2659a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <537d06d00902141104p73e5a03dwfb3300c5d0a2659a@mail.gmail.com> Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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 n1EJd0DB013177 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 15312 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: minimiscience@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list de'i li 14 pi'e 02 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Philip Newton .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > Since Lojban has a six-vowel system, I would have thought that there > would be a bit of latitude or room for allophonic variation in the > vowels -- for example, to pronounce /o/ as [o] or [O], /a/ as [a] or > [A], etc. .skamyxatra The CLL explicitly states (in section 3.2) that 'a' can be pronounced as either [a] or [ɑ] and that 'o' can be pronounced as [o] or [ɔ]. However, the first phoneme in each pair is the preferred pronunciation. mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun. -- na'e morsi fa lo kakne be lonu ze'e cando .ije sekai loka cizra cedra kei lo si'o morsi ji'a ka'e mrobi'o To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.