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RE: [lojban] Re: lluis's pronunciation
>> 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".
zejnino is invalid. It breaks up into ze jnino, even though there's no such
word as jnino.
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