[lojban-beginners] Re: A Newbie's First Impressions

[Jon MacLeod <eye_onus@yahoo.com>]

--- G Dyke <gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> Chris Evans wrote, concerning {x}:
> 
> > Techinically, it's a "voiced k".  But,
> >
> >  
> >
> Whatever it is, it certainly isn't voiced. If you compare these sequences:
> 
> poo   pfoo    foo
> tart   chart    shark
> k       kx       x
> 
> x bears the same relation to k as f does to p. It is an unvoiced 
> (wherever k is pronounced) fricative.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 

 Yes, but the 'x' sound in Lojban isn't 'kx', it's 'kh'. Go find a scotsman and
ask him to say 'Loch Ness'. He won't say it 'Lock Ness', but 'Loh(throat
clearing sound) Ness'.

-Jon

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