[lojban-beginners] Re: mp3 files: can you help?

[m.kornig@sondal.net]

Selon Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>:

> On 6/3/07, m.kornig@sondal.net <m.kornig@sondal.net> wrote:
>
> >     (2a) The length of the vowels are very different.
> >          Compare for instance Hans' "mu" (short) on the
> >          one hand and Matt's "mu" (long) on the other.
> >          Hans' "pa" is relatively short, too.
> >
> >          Are the lengths of the five principal vowels
> >          in numbers meant to be different? Personally,
> >          I speak all vowels relatively long. But I'm
> >          only a starter and that may be wrong...
>
> In Lojban, vowel lengths are not meant to be one way or meant to be
> another. These are unintentional differences of dramatic performance,
> with no significance.

Dramatic performance for numbers like "one", "two", "three"? You
must be kidding...

Does it make sense to pronounce "pa" and "mu" with a short
vowel and the other numers with long vowels? I don't think so.

Martin