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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "x" sound
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I find the Spanish 'j' and the Lojban 'x' fairly close in pronunciation.

>From: "Betsemes" <betsemes@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
>To: <lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org>
>Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "x" sound
>Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:35:07 -0400
>
> > The "x" sound is made by putting the middle bulge of your tongue against
> > the back end of your hard pallate and gargling while forcing air through
> > your mouth. It sounds quite disgusting. I think that it's entirely
> > possible a native English speaker may never have heard this sound in
> > his/her entire life.
> >
>English is not my native language. I live in Puerto Rico and Spanish is my
>native tongue. In Puerto Rico, we have a sound for some words containing 
>"r"
>such as "arroz" that's precisely the sound used for the Klingon "H", so for
>me it's just a matter of knowing whether or not Lojban "x" is the same 
>sound
>as Klingon "H" and that's enough. Thanks.
>
>
>