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Re: [lojban] Re: "la" rule
Chris Capel, On 15/11/2006 03:55:
On 11/14/06, And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com> wrote:
The solution is
rather to replace the words {la}, {lai} and {doi} by {la.}, {lai.} and
{doi.}, i.e. [la?], [lai?], [doi?].
Your "realized as a" symbol, which I assume is some IPA, shows up as a
"?" for me. Is it a glottal stop?
Yes. Ascii IPA, not a mangled character encoding.
I have a bit of difficulty pronouncing a glottal stop in the middle of
a speech stream, and getting it to sound different from without, or
from being apparent enough. For instance, the two
la.clsn
laclsn
sound pretty much the same the way I say them.
In my English English accent, _lash_ is [laS] and _latch_ is [la?S], so one can at least say that the contrast is not exotic. In Lojban, where /./ appears in difficult clusters you could insert the buffer vowel (I use [Y]), so e.g. /la.clsn/ could be [la?YSlsn]. That's what I tend to do with the /./ at the end of cmevla, e.g. {la .alis. cu} [la?alis?YSu].
--And.