Message-Id: <199511031723.MAA15739@locke.ccil.org>
Date:         Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:39:09 +0300
Reply-To: Cyril Slobin <slobin@FEAST.FE.MSK.RU>
Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
From: Cyril Slobin <slobin@FEAST.FE.MSK.RU>
Organization: Institute for Commercial Engineering
Subject:      Re: Phonology Paper Released
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  <199511031127.AA13427@sequent.kiae.su>; from Paulo Barreto at
              Fri, 3 Nov 1995 06:21:00 LCL
Status: OR

coi.

> > Why does Lojban make [B] a variant of "v" rather than of "b"?
> > Is this rule inherited from Loglan? I definitely don't like it.

> I read somewhere that the russian cluster "KB" as in "MOCKBA" (sorry,
> no cyrillic fonts :-) sounds [kB]. Perhaps JCB (or someone else) was
> aware of this. (Perhaps also la kir. or someone else could tell us
> if that cluster does indeed sound this way.)

I haven't yet read phonology paper, and pronuncation always was my
weakest side (you happy haven't _hear_ my english! :-), but I belive
lojban sounds are more or less close to correspondent russian (maybe
expect ' ). But I can prove that MOCKBA sounds just mos,KVA - neither
"mosqua" nor "moskba". Cyrillic alphabet has _two_ letters derived from
Greek "beta" - and those _looks_ like latin B _sounds_ like V.

co'o mi'e kir.
--
Cyril Slobin <slobin@fe.msk.ru> `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said,
<http://www.fe.msk.ru/~slobin/> `it means just what I choose it to mean'