Where is the beginners list?
On Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:31:08 PM UTC-4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 21:34:36 'John E. Clifford' via lojban wrote:
> Drat, have they changed the rules again for the Lord knows how manieth time?
> It has been, from time to time, that *anything* preceded by {la .} and
> followed by{.}, with no intervening pause was a name, including some rather
> messy sentences, the names of books or Indians (He is so fierce his enemies
> are afraid of even just his horses.). What is the rule this week?
You don't need a pause in {la selterpa xirma ponse}. (The original name was
compressed, leading to the misleading translation "Man Afraid of his Horses".)
You need a pause only after a cmevla, before a cmevla (in dotside), before a
word starting with a vowel, and in some cases of cmavo with 'y' in them or
stressed on the last syllable.
On Thursday, September 25, 2014 11:28:40 selpa'i wrote:
> Am 25.09.2014 01:17, schrieb Romaji ####:
> > Or it could be {mi'e la .romajih. mu'o}, right?
>
> The closest to "h" is {x}, so you could go with {romajix}. (Isn't your
> name pronounced more like {romadji} though?)
From what I've read about Japanese phonetics, /dʒ/ and /ʒ/ have fallen
together, as have /dz/ and /z/ (allophones of /d/ and /z/ before /i/ and /u/),
but /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ and /ts/ and /s/ have not. They are still distinguished in
kana though.
Since this is a beginner's question, shouldn't it be on the beginners' list?
Pierre
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