[lojban-beginners] English schwa vs. Lojban y

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 11/15/2005 4:22:27 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> A most significant example I've seen in a book on English
> grammar was "station" (pronounced as: [steicyn]).
> Actually, several nouns ending in "-ion" have the schwa
> vowel.
> mi'e xiLI,odor.


That ending is also frequently pronounced as a syllabic /n/, which was mentioned in an earlier post.

stevo