[lojban-beginners] Re: consonant doubling?

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 6/18/07, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
> The mere fact that some people can deal with it without problem just won't
> help those who can't. I think Lojban is not meant to segregate/alienate
> people of particular linguistic backgrounds. And that is one of the
> differences between Lojban and, say, Esperanto.

Esperanto is meant to segregate/alienate people of particular linguistic
backgrouinds?

In fact, the phonology system of Esperanto is pretty similar to that of
Lojban. They have practically the exact same phoneme set: the only
difference is that Esperanto doesn't have {y}, and it considers {dj},
{ts} and {tc} single phonemes. I'm not completely certain, but I think
Lojban's phoneme set was copied from Esperanto. As for clusters,
Espeanto does allow some things that Lojban doesn't, but for the most
part it is Lojban that allows the most monstruous clusters.

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