Re: [lojban] Re: two 't' sounds

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Saturday 08 November 2003 10:24, Llu'is Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 09:10:36AM -0500, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com 
wrote:
> I agree about the comment about 'e'... Well, that's one thing I wanted to
> expose in the comment you replied to. :)
>
> And about Russian T.... I've just begun studying Russian now. I begun first
> year in October. :)
> It's hard for me to make soft (palatalized) consonants... and for me,
> russian soft 't' sounded like 't' in "tear" or "time".
> I see I have a lot to learn yet. :)

By "tear" do you mean "selklaku" or "lapfendi"?

> Anyway... is that soft 't' accepted as lojban 't'?

I don't think that soft 't' should be used as lojban 't'; e.g. "sputu" could 
be misheard as "sputiu". I ran down the gismu ending in "tV" where 'V' is not 
'i', inserting 'i', and none of the resulting words mean anything AFAIK, but 
such a pair is possible. There is a word "strutione", but no "strutone" 
AFAIK.

phma
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