In a message dated 4/29/2002 6:42:21 PM Central Daylight Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes:' does not mean 'no other consonant', it means [T] or [h]. or any other unvoiced consonant that cannot be confused with normal Lojban consonants. It is hard to think of what these might be, but if you come up with one, it is legal (more so, indeed, than /h/, which regularly collapses to /x/ (well, actually the other way round, but confusion none the less)). 2.3 (31) robin tr: <Of course Turks would have as much difficulty as omst of us do with those goddam syllabic "r"s!> Hoy! As a speaker of a dialect that uses syllabic rs (retroflexed schwas) all over the place, I object to "goddam." They're much prettier than pharyngealized vowels used by those with "r-less" dialects -- and can even be thought of as rs! (And they don't trigger my gag reflex/) |