[lojban-beginners] Re: consonant doubling?

["Karl Naylor" <karl.org@gmail.com>]

On 18/06/07, m.kornig@sondal.net <m.kornig@sondal.net> wrote:

> Oh, I knew about voiced-unvoiced clusters. But I
> didn't know about {sc} and {zj}. I can pronounce
> both of them (even stand-alone, i.e. without a
> vowel). Why would you want to exclude these
> sounds?

Good for you if you can pronounce those, but not everyone can.  I find
myself unable to pronounce {sc} without sounding like {c}, for
instance.  The sound could be padded (eg. with a short "i" sound) of
course, but not everyone will do that, and I think many listeners
would be confused as to whether they had heard {c} or {sc}.