Re: [lojban] speech synthesizer

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM>]

I've been wondering: why _does_ lojban use ' instead of h?

Because the sound is not really an h and because it is not a consonant.

The use of h in in place of ' is somewhat misleading.

I myself dislike the use of ' but I cannot think of any better
solution to the problem it solves and understand why Lojbab et al
chose it.

There is an alternative, non-ambiguous way of writing Lojban that does
not require as many ' but it is harder to learn. In this alternative,
you may drop ' from places where it can be determined from other info,
such as the particular letters you are using, that it is necessary 
the ' be there.

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Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com
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