RE: [lojban] What's the logic behind Lojban's sound system?

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>> > #>The phonology of /'/ and /@/, where /@/ = buffer vowel is so stupid
>> > #>-- so unlike anything in natlangs -- that it is simply indefensible.
>>
>> I don't know about that. Colloquial Turkish uses a short "i" (that's an
>> English "i", not a Lojban "i"!) or occasionally "ü" to buffer foreign
words,
>> e.g. "film" is often pronounced "filim" and "studyo", "sütüdyo".

>The thing I consider stupid is the definition of their realizations
>as "none of the above". The notion of epenthetic vowels is a perfectly
>natural one, which I'm all in favour of.

' does not mean 'no other consonant', it means [T] or [h].