[lojban] Re: lluis's pronunciation

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Llu'is Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> >
> > http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/lojban/
> >
> > Let's criticise it!
> 
> ry. sounds like "mbry."

I hear a regular trilled "r". I tend to prefer the flap rather than the
trill for Lojban (Spanish "r" rather than "rr"). CLL lists the trill 
first among the permitted variants, but it says that in the case of "r"
all of the variations are equally acceptable.    

> bu. sounds like "vu." in the first part, but after the second .ebu you
> consistenly pronounce it right.

I often fall into that trap too. In Spanish (and I suppose in Catalan 
too) b and v are both pronounced as a bilabial fricative. It is easy 
enough to change v into a labiodental fricative, but changing b into 
a plosive takes more effort.

I don't hear ".ubu" for the fifth letter though. It sounds like
".obu" again, while the other "u"s sound fine to me.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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