[lojban-beginners] Re: lo morsi spitaki

["Vid Sintef" <picos.picos@gmail.com>]

On 8/4/07, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > I love the way he says ".i ninmu ki'a
> > *le'o*", because he doesn't look to be aggressive at all!
>
> That was deliberate; if you're going to have a word for
> aggressiveness, you shouldn't need the facial expressions and tone
> of voice.
> Call it artistic style, or something.

I know. It's an artistic deliberation, and nicely amusing too. He is
again somehow terrific when looking at, uninterestingly, you trying to
waken the spitaki.

(Also I noticed Mr. Cowan sometimes pronounced the "r" sound like the
French or German one, in which case an accompanying "x" would become
the "h" as in "trixe" (03:21), otherwise the American rhotic sound.)