From cowan Fri Aug 9 15:57:53 1991 Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Re: Ow! Hot, hot! To: conlang@buphy.bu.edu (conlang), lojban-list Date: Fri, 9 Aug 91 15:57:13 EDT In-Reply-To: <9108091741.AA24081@relay2.UU.NET>; from "Ronald Hale-Evans" at Aug 9, 91 1:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO la ran. heil. evnz. cusku di'e: > P.S. Why do you use an apostrophe instead of an h? For a couple of reasons. The main one is that "'" isn't a consonant by our standards; it only appears between vowels, and really represents a "voiceless vowel glide". People whose native language doesn't include [h] can still usually manage it intervocalically. The reason for the "'" is to add lots of diphthongs: "a'i" sounds quite distinct from "ai" and "a'a" from "a". -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban