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

[Llu'is Batlle i Rossell <viric@vicerveza.homeunix.net>]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:14:57PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Saturday 08 November 2003 10:24, Llu'is Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 09:10:36AM -0500, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com 
> wrote:
> > 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"?
> 

ue mi pu pensi ledu'u selklaku ui

> > 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.

Aha. Perfect.

-- 
 "... el quid de la qüestió està en l'educació: en la filosofia didàctica,
  l'opció ignorància hauria d'existir: tu què vols ser? Jo, enginyer; jo, metge;
  jo, ignorant: és a dir, vull aprendre a viure però no vull saber-ho tot."
     -- Pau Riba, entrevista a "Paper de Vidre", núm. 5