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Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban "r"



Gah. Speaking Russian makes all this so much easier.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:31 PM, cybrown <cybrown@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been having this same problem myself, in working through Lojban
for Beginners, since gerku is a common gismu used in that series. I
find myself often saying geirku, but not quite the english "gay-r-
koo." It makes me wonder if I should be saying "gerku" more like
English "gir-koo" even though that's clearly a different "e" sound
than the one I use in "le" (which I would spell as English "leh").
Should my gerku and lerfu sound like English "ir" sounds? If so then I
don't know how I would tell them apart from gyrku and lyrfu, although
my understanding is that those can't be real words anyway, right?

On Aug 28, 1:18 pm, Luke Bergen <lukeaber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah I was showing what I understood syllabic r to sound like which is why
> it sounds so different.
>
> If the question is "which sounds more like e followed by r to me" then I
> will vote for my "er" over the "er" of "runner" every time.
> On Aug 28, 2011 10:26 AM, "tijlan" <jbotij...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 28 August 2011 05:52, Luke Bergen <lukeaber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ugh.  The way that I pronounced "r" in that audio had absolutely ZERO "e"
> in
> >> it (at least to my ears).  Arbitrarily dropping vowels in
> >> word pronunciation just feels so friggin' unlojbanic that I'm a little
> >> offput right now.
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> > I take your audio as follows:
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> > er [ɛ(ː)r]
> > eir [eɪr]
> > r [ɚː]
> > lrfu [lərfu]
> > cirlrfu [ʃɪrlərfu]
> > cirlerfu [ʃɪrlɛrfu]
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> > Samples for each IPA symbol:http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/
> > (Note that, for consonants, he is adding an actual vowel to
> > illustrate different positional realizations, such that "r" --> [ra:]
> > & [ara:] & [a:r] )
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> > I don't hear /e/ -- [e] or [ɛ] -- in your "r", but it sounds more like
> > a vowel than a consonant. And it's certainly not the [r] that you are
> > using for the other words.
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> > To be more hair-splitting as pertains to the "er/eir" issue: I hear,
> > if I try, a slight lengthening of the /e/ in your "er", becoming
> > closer to the length of "eir", but the vowels themselves seem still
> > distinguishable in the way you pronounce them.
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> > mu'o
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