[lojban-beginners] Re: proper pronunciation of apostrophe

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 05:22, Minimiscience<minimiscience@gmail.com> wrote:
> de'i li 20 pi'e 08 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com .fy. cusku
> zoi skamyxatra.
>> So will lots of other people who use the terms for different things,
>> including English speakers who use it for the different between the two main
>> sounds of "c" and "g" (hard = k/g, soft = s/j).
> .skamyxatra
>
> 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.

And it was pointed out that your use of those terms possibly caused
more confusion than had you simply omitted them entirely.

>ÂHow do you think I should have described [Î] and [Ã]?

As {"th" as in "thing"} and {"th" as in "this"}, for example.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>