Re: [lojban] Brochure updates

[Nick NICHOLAS <nicholas@uci.edu>]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, John Cowan wrote:

> Nick NICHOLAS wrote:
> > And fu'ivla, for which the same holds. And which the Esperantists love to
> > use to polemicise about how unpronouncable Lojban is.
> And how right they are.  This is the quality that JCB used to
> describe as "crunchiness".

!! I thought I came up with that independently. I think it's in the
Lessons now. Well, someone'll Wiki it sooner or later. :-)

> But at least we don't have words like "athomi".

Yeah, I was flabbergasted when I saw that in the Loglan 1 Lojbab just gave
me. Contrastive aspiration, in a language primarily spoken by English
speakers. Just what the Doctor ordered...

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