Re: [lojban] pronouncing ? as th

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:40:01AM -0000, la_okus wrote:
> Then I read on the wiki that .kreig.daniyl. pronounces it as `th' in 
> `think'. I find that this sound can be made much more quickly, 
> allowing me to zip over the "ba'o" of ba'orzu'e to make ba'orZU'e. 

Unlike the other two people who have responded, this doesn't bother me
in the least, and I doubt it would make you any harder to understand for
me.

> As a side effect, my lojban sounds a lot more like tolkien's 
> beautiful elvish languages. 

To me it just sounds like you have a lisp or something.  8)

> I am making this thread to ask what you all think of my decision. Will
> lojban split into an assortment of accents, and if so, won't this
> happen anyway when lojban gains more speakers outside the US? 

One would hope so; it was rather designed that way.

> PS. While I'm here, I'd like to clear up something about stress. In
> the lujvo "dadysli", is it pronounced dadYsli or DADysli? Does that
> little schwa get counted?

IIRC, 'y' is never counted for purposes of stress.

-Robin

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