[lojban-beginners] Re: Anyone there?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:19:42PM +1000, Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
>  --- 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.)

/me blinks.

You find the "i" in "bit" hard to distinguish from the "ee" in "beet"?

That's just bizarre to me.  What dialect?  I'm pure American English.

-Robin

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