[lojban-beginners] Re: apostrophes?

[jkominek@miranda.org]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:24:47PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
> Jay,
> Have I been pronouncing the apostrophe wrong? I thought it was
> pronounced "h". Therefore it is.

"I think X, therefore X"? Come on.

The CLL discusses this, and while it gives a different explanation,
it also includes:

"As a permitted variant, any unvoiced fricative other than those
already used in Lojban may be used to render the apostrophe: IPA [T]
is one possibility."

[h] is one possible pronunciation of ', but not the only one. The most
interesting characteristic of it isn't what it sounds like, but
rather, what it accomplishes, which is to separate vowels. ' does
that, very visibly.

-- 
Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>