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On Thursday, June 20, 2013 04:45:34 la arxokuna wrote:
> But why? Is there something difficult to pronounce in it?

There's nothing hard to pronounce about it, it's just not a diphthong in 
Lojban. It used to be a diphthong in English, but has been monophthongized. 
Probably it would be hard to tell from a long "e" or from "ia" depending on 
how you pronounce it.

What I find stranger is that "eu" is not a Lojban diphthong. "eu" is fairly 
common, occurring in Spanish at least of the six. It's a diphthong in Basque 
but not Lojban, which is why "auskalerik" is so spelled. "euskalerik" would 
have an extra syllable. /eu/ does not occur in Russian (Belarusian, but not 
Russian, has diphthongs ending in /u/) or English (it turns into /iu/). The 
other three I don't know.

Pierre
-- 
ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji

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