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On Saturday, November 24, 2012 02:18:07 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> If you ever took Latin, or possibly any of the Romance languages, the
> vowels possibly excepting .ybu are pronounced exactly the same as in that
> language.

Spanish, yes. Portuguese has two 'o' sounds and two 'e' sounds which Lojban=
=20
does not distinguish (e.g. 'Cair no po=E7o n=E3o posso' =3D es 'Caer en el =
pozo no=20
puedo'). Italian has two 'e' sounds and two 'o' sounds. In French the Lojba=
n=20
'u' sound is written 'ou', 'e' often reduces to schwa, and there are plenty=
 of=20
other spellings that don't match sounds.

Pierre
--=20
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

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