[lojban-beginners] Re: proper pronunciation of apostrophe

[Joshua Choi <joshua@choi.name>]

Just wondering, what reasoning was behind the decision to give the "h"  
sound a uniquely different symbol, the apostrophe? Was it to emphasize  
that it could represent any unused unvoiced fricative? Was it because  
it looked nicer in certain cmavo?

On 20 August 2009, at 3:34 PM, Minimiscience wrote:

> de'i li 20 pi'e 08 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. tony hall .fy. cusku zoi  
> skamyxatra.
> > I'm not sure I understand the apostrophe correctly.  Is it  
> > pronounced with an
> > 'h' sound:
> >
> > .au is pronounced like "ow"
> >
> > is .a'u pronounced like "ahoo"?
> .skamyxatra
>
> That is correct.  As a variant, the apostrophe may also be  
> pronounced as any
> unvoiced fricative not already used in Lojban, e.g., [Î], the sound  
> of the soft
> "th" in "thing" (not the hard "th" of "this").
>
> mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.
>
> --
> li'a .e'i ca vondei .i mi na'e pu'i kufra loi vondei