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RE: [lojban] What's the logic behind Lojban's sound system?
Craig:
> >The phonology of /'/ and /@/, where /@/ = buffer vowel is so stupid
> >-- so unlike anything in natlangs -- that it is simply indefensible.
>
> /@/ is NOT a buffer vowel, it is {y}.
? Lojban has seven vowels, /i/, /e/, /a/, /o/, /u/, /y/ and the
buffer vowel, for which there is no agreed symbol. Since there is
no agreed symbol, I arbitrarily chose /@/. There is nothing incorrect
in any of this.
--And.