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Re: [lojban-beginners] [a] vs [æ]
On Saturday, November 24, 2012 02:18:07 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> If you ever took Latin, or possibly any of the Romance languages, the
> vowels possibly excepting .ybu are pronounced exactly the same as in that
> language.
Spanish, yes. Portuguese has two 'o' sounds and two 'e' sounds which Lojban
does not distinguish (e.g. 'Cair no poço não posso' = es 'Caer en el pozo no
puedo'). Italian has two 'e' sounds and two 'o' sounds. In French the Lojban
'u' sound is written 'ou', 'e' often reduces to schwa, and there are plenty of
other spellings that don't match sounds.
Pierre
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li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa
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