[lojban-beginners] Re: consonant doubling?

[m.kornig@sondal.net]

Selon 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}.

I believe {c} and {sc} sound very different. But {j}
and {dj} don't and are allowed...

Martin