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[lojban-beginners] Re: proper pronunciation of apostrophe



>  I wasn't using "hard" and "soft" as stand-ins for "voiced" and "unvoiced"; I
>  was simply trying to describe the different pronunciations of English "th" to
>  someone I had no reason to presume was already familiar with the technical
>  aspects of phonetics.  How do you think I should have described [Î] and [Ã]?

i think the good names are 'lenis' and 'fortis' (see the most famous
english phonetics book, i don't remeber the author now,
unfortunately).

since we are speaking about phonetics, how do you think a french
speaker should pronounce 'xr', or 'rx' ? It seems that 'x' represents
the unvoiced french 'r', so one should not use french 'r' in this
case.