From xod@thestonecutters.net Thu Mar 11 14:12:58 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:12:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from thestonecutters.net ([63.251.19.112] helo=chert.thestonecutters.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B1YQ7-0000No-DO for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:12:51 -0800 Received: from thestonecutters.net (p78-77.acedsl.com [66.114.78.77]) by chert.thestonecutters.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9EBF148005 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:11:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4050E45D.1090403@thestonecutters.net> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:12:45 -0500 From: xod User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: pronouncing =?windows-1252?Q?=91?= as th (xod) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-archive-position: 7209 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list la_okus wrote: >>Untrilled r tends to pollute the following vowel. >> >> > >What do you mean by "pollute"? > > I find it easier to overcome my English (American) accent and produce a flat vowel in, for example, "ro", if the r is trilled. -- "The war was supposed to be quick. We were supposed to be greeted as liberators. It was to pay for itself with oil revenues. And we were supposed to find chemical and biological weapons." Col. Sam Gardiner USAF-retired, National Defense University