[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban "r"

[ranoritc <ranorith@gmail.com>]

I definitely pronounce the first "e" in "better" differently to the
second "e", so I'm not sure this works for me at all. Took me some
time to stop pronouncing "er" in lojban words as "yr", as this is how
I normally pronounce it in English. I agree with Luke that it should
rhyme with air (or mostly rhyme), at least in my dialect.

On Aug 27, 3:29 am, Jonathan Jones <eyeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Lojban sound-cluster that sounds like the English "air" is {eir}, not
> {er}. .ebu is pronounced as the "e" in "b*e*tt*e*r", ""w*e*t", "p*e*st",
> etc. The pronunciation example the CLL uses is
> "l*e*t"<http://dag.github.com/cll/2/2/>,
> "What is Lojban?" lists the pronunciation in IPA as "e [E] ([e]): a front
> mid vowel" <http://lojban.org/publications/level0/brochure/phonapp.html>,
> "Lojban for Beginners" uses the example
> "g*e*t"<http://www.tlg.uci.edu/%7Eopoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less1.html#...>,
> and the English pronunciation guide uses the examples "b*e*t,
> l*e*ns"<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Pronunciation+guide+in+English>
>

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