On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:31 PM, cybrown <cybrown@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been having this same problem myse= lf, in working through Lojban
for Beginners, since gerku is a common gismu used in that series. I
find myself often saying geirku, but not quite the english "gay-r-
koo." It makes me wonder if I should be saying "gerku" more = like
English "gir-koo" even though that's clearly a different &quo= t;e" sound
than the one I use in "le" (which I would spell as English "= leh").
Should my gerku and lerfu sound like English "ir" sounds? If so t= hen I
don't know how I would tell them apart from gyrku and lyrfu, although my understanding is that those can't be real words anyway, right?

On Aug 28, 1:18=C2=A0pm, Luke Bergen <lukeaber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah I was showing what I understood syllabic r to sound like which is= why
> it sounds so different.
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> If the question is "which sounds more like e followed by r to me&= quot; then I
> will vote for my "er" over the "er" of "runne= r" every time.

> On Aug 28, 2011 10:26 AM, "tijlan" <jbotij...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> > On 28 August 2011 05:52, Luke Bergen <lukeaber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ugh. =C2=A0The way that I pronounced "r" in that au= dio had absolutely ZERO "e"
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> >> it (at least to my ears). =C2=A0Arbitrarily dropping vowels i= n
> >> word pronunciation just feels so friggin' unlojbanic that= I'm a little
> >> offput right now.
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> > I take your audio as follows:
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> > er [=C9=9B(=CB=90)r]
> > eir [e=C9=AAr]
> > r [=C9=9A=CB=90]
> > lrfu [l=C9=99rfu]
> > cirlrfu [=CA=83=C9=AArl=C9=99rfu]
> > cirlerfu [=CA=83=C9=AArl=C9=9Brfu]
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> > Samples for each IPA symbol:http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/
> > (Note that, for consonants, he is adding an actual vowel to
> > illustrate different positional realizations, such that "r&q= uot; --> [ra:]
> > & [ara:] & [a:r] )
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> > I don't hear /e/ -- [e] or [=C9=9B] -- in your "r",= but it sounds more like
> > a vowel than a consonant. And it's certainly not the [r] that= you are
> > using for the other words.
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> > To be more hair-splitting as pertains to the "er/eir" i= ssue: I hear,
> > if I try, a slight lengthening of the /e/ in your "er",= becoming
> > closer to the length of "eir", but the vowels themselve= s seem still
> > distinguishable in the way you pronounce them.
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> > mu'o
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