Re: [lojban] Re: lluis's pronunciation

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Thursday 06 November 2003 08:07, John Cowan wrote:
> In addition, "se cmene" and "te smuni" sound like "ze jmene" and "te zmuni"
> to me.  Fortunately, "jmene" and "zmuni" cannot exist, but "ze" for "se"
> is more serious.  It's important not to obliterate voicing distinctions
> anywhere in Lojban.

They can exist, they just don't. "jmifa" and "zmiku" do exist. However, if he 
had pronounced "se cnino" as "ze jnino", that would have lexed as one word 
"zejnino" (which doesn't exist either). Similarly for "te znada".

phma

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