[lojban-beginners] Re: PodCast comments ...

[Wim Coenen <wim.coenen@advalvas.be>]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:54:59PM +0100, Colin Wright wrote:
> I have a real problem with part of it, though.  Throughout the letter "o" is 
> being pronounced as the vowel sound(s) in these words:
> 
>     low
>     though
>     toe
>     crow
> 
> This includes, specifically, in the word "lojban".  My understanding from the 
> written material is that the "o" sound should be a pure vowel, pronounced as 
> in "topic" or "hot".

I had the same feeling about the pronounciation of lojban. It sounds
very american that way, but I wouldn't call it wrong. Plus, I just listened
to the podcast again, and realized that epkat only pronounces lojban
'american style' when it's part of an english sentence, *not* in the lojban
parts.

Something which did have me worry, was epkats remark that {e} should
always be prounced
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Open-mid_front_unrounded_vowel.ogg

Personally I pronounce it as
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel.ogg
which is (to me as a dutch speaker) a very different sound. I am pretty sure
that both are correct. If not, then somebody should correct the wikipedia
article on lojban.

mu'o mi'e .uim.