[lojban-beginners] Re: consonant doubling?

["Turniansky, Michael [UNK]" <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com>]

Martin:
> With respect to consonant clusters, Lojban seems
> to be rather complicated (and somewhat arbitrary).

  Well, I've always assumed, in my own cynical way, that mz was
disallowed not because of "confusion with nz in noisy conditions" as is
sometimes alleged (since that argument could be made with a lot
combinations), but because they didn't want Loglan creator James Cooke
Brown to be able to say his name in lojban ;-)
 
             --gejyspa