[lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban-beginners]

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

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:32:51PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 6/15/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> >All Americans I've heard pronounce it "rai,n", so it seems
> >significant to me.
> 
> We may be talking at cross purposes here. I'm not saying anything
> about the pronunciation of the English name "Ryan", I'm sure you
> know better than I how it is pronounced in English.
> 
> I was talking about the Lojban word {rain}. {rai,n} is a perfectly
> valid syllabification of that word, as is any other.
>
> Syllabification is never significant in Lojban cmevla.

I'm not sure that that issue is as cut and dried as you're
presenting, but even if it is, that's irrelevant to my point, which
is that if he wants people to pronounce it the way he is, he should
indicate appropriately.  It's not about distinguishing two cmene,
it's about pronouncing one cmene the way its owner wants.

-Robin

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