[lojban] Re: Aesthetics

[Jordan DeLong <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:10:28PM -0500, Craig wrote:
[...]
> >> Presumably And was indending to replace them with another letter?
> 
> >Like and H or a Q, possibly pronounced like "theta"?
> 
> This would be useful in, eg, translating Twain - it allows us to spell out
> alternative pronunciations. But in normal writing, it would only be
> divisive; I dislike h for ' because [h] is not an optimal pronunciation and
> /h/ pronounced [T] is just crazy.

Why is [h] not an optimal pronunciation for '?  (Yes I know the
title of the thread is 'aesthetics', but you seem to be implying
there's some kind of reason).

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