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[lojban-beginners] Re: Anyone there?



 --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
wrote: 

> It's actually the lack of short 'i' that pisses me
> off.  :-)

Why is it that [I] isn't an allophone of /i/? For most
people in the world, they're close enough that it's
hard to distinguish anyway... (I'm a native English
speaker, and out of context, I find hearing [i] vs [I]
difficult; [I] is many times easier for me to produce
than [i] though.)

--
Tristan

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