Re: [lojban] Sound recordings for the lessons

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/7/2001 8:49:16 AM Central Daylight Time,
ragnarok@pobox.com writes:

Technically this is unrelated, but it's still a pronunciation thing. Since
lojban. does not use the sound we spell th in english, maybe we should use
that instead of h for apostrophes. I don't know about the rest of you, but I
have trouble differentiating between the ' and the x when I speak with the
standard pronunciation. What do you think?

At the risk of killing the idea completely, I'd like to say that I think it
is a good one.  I do it myself (when I remember) and it is listed in the book
as a possibility.  The /x/-/h/ confusions seems to be fairly common --
mainly, I suspect, before /o/ and /u/ and with speakers whose native language
doesn't have a good /x/.