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[lojban] Re: Lojban for Beginners lesson 12 answers



>If the source language reduces vowels
>according to stress, which Russian does, I think it's okay to use
>the unreduced vowel sound when Lojbanizing.

 I do not understand why transformation ?o? into ?a? is ?reduction?. For example in German ?sch? should be pronounced like Lojban?s ?c? and this sound is not reduction of three sounds (?s?, ?c?, and ?h?) this sound (Lojban?s ?c?) has nothing common with sounds corresponding to letters ?sch?. It is a rule of reading. The same story is with the first ?o? in {la moskov}. It stays there only because of historical reasons and has nothing common with sound ?o?.  

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