[lojban-beginners] Re: la'i<somename>. - Unique semantics of letter combinations?

[jexOm. <jexOm@free.fr>]

Note :
{'} is not the syllabe separator, {,} is.
{'} is pronounced 'h' like in "hello".
  Jérôme.

Le 30 août 04, à 00:48, Chris Howlett a écrit :

> As I understand it, the difference occurs because "la'i lojban" is
> actually pronounced subtly differently from "la .ilojban". The ' - a
> syllable separator - is not so much a pause as just a means of changing
> syllables. It's often written as a light h. In contrast, . is a glottal
> stop, a very real pause. As an example, consider the name "Ryan". As
> it's pronounced (where I live at least!), that could just about be
> lojbanised as "rai'an". The alternative "rai.an" would become in 
> English
> something more akin to "rye - an", where the gap includes a glottal 
> stop
> (the vocal thing where you push air through a closed throat, forcing it
> open. You'll do it automatically if you try to say just "ah".)
>
> Hope that made sense - it's very hard discussing pronunciation through
> text!
>
> mi'e kris.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org
> > [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org] On
> > Behalf Of Jens-Wolfhard Schicke
> > Sent: 29 August 2004 11:03
> > To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
> > Subject: [lojban-beginners] la'i<somename>. - Unique
> > semantics of letter combinations?
> >
> >
> > I read the claim, that
> > > A stream of Lojban sounds can be uniquely broken up into
> > its component
> > > words according to specific rules.
> > [ Reference Grammar, Chapter 4 ]
> >
> > So how abount the stream
> >
> > .imiskicula'ilojban.
> >
> > Where do I know from whether I describe the thing named
> > "'ilojban" or the set of named "lojban"?
> >
> > BTW:
> > ~ # ./jbofihe
> > .imiskicula'ilojban.
> > Unrecognizable word ''ilojban' at line 1 column 12