RE: [lojban] Re: two 't' sounds

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>> I agree about the comment about 'e'... Well, that's one thing I wanted to
>> expose in the comment you replied to. :)
>>
>> And about Russian T.... I've just begun studying Russian now. I begun
first
>> year in October. :)
>> It's hard for me to make soft (palatalized) consonants... and for me,
>> russian soft 't' sounded like 't' in "tear" or "time".
>> I see I have a lot to learn yet. :)

>By "tear" do you mean "selklaku" or "lapfendi"?

>> Anyway... is that soft 't' accepted as lojban 't'?

>I don't think that soft 't' should be used as lojban 't'; e.g. "sputu"
could
>be misheard as "sputiu". I ran down the gismu ending in "tV" where 'V' is
not
>'i', inserting 'i', and none of the resulting words mean anything AFAIK,
but
>such a pair is possible. There is a word "strutione", but no "strutone"
>AFAIK.

However, there's nothing worng with using a soft t when the next letter *is*
an i. For instance, xruti.

 -- .kreig.daniyl.

"Well, perl can do pretty much anything as long as it is hard to read."
 -ShawnF

ragnarok@pobox.com
teucer@bnomic.org



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