On Wed, 23 May 2007, Cortesi wrote:
On May 23, 2007, at 2:21 AM, :m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:the word "neighbor"... Is it "xa'ujbi" or "jbixa'u"? Which is better/more common?Frankly I would not want to call a neighbor by either term. Two words closer to sound of a large gob being spat I've never heard...
Well, to each language its own sound... To English ears Lojban tends to sound consonant heavy, but just imagine what English would sound like to a native Lojban speaker -- the vowels all squishy and sliding into each other and always mixing together. And no nice firm .xy sound anywhere! zo'o mu'o mi'e .aleks.