[lojban-beginners] Re: coi rodo

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:57:47PM -0500, Hal Fulton wrote:
> diLItyr wrote:
> >
> >"'" can only be between two vowels... I think the border between
> >words counts so that the "'" can't be there.? And anyway, if you
> >say {la .al.}, it sounds same as {la 'al.} would, IMO.
> 
> :) Not in my native language/dialect.

Agreed.

> It bothers me that Lojban doesn't have a true H, except one that
> can only interpose two vowels.

You get used to it.  :-)

> As a side note, Lojban's x sounds more like a k to me than it
> sounds like an h. 

Most English speakers feel that way, yes.

> My dialect of English doesn't have that x sound.

No dialect of English has that sound.

> I'm very new to this list, do people use {} to indicate Lojban
> spellings?

It's pretty common, yeah.

-Robin

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