Philip Newton schrieb:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:29:01 +0100, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:I thought about that too, and came to the opinion that the "g" would have to lose its voicing, yielding "jinmlrontkeni".I'd've picked "jinmlrentkeni", I suppose, since for me [9] is closer to [E] (simply the rounded version of it) than to [O]. mu'o mi'e .filip.
Even if it conflates german ä and ö, i like this idea (ü would, going by phonetic similarity, become i).
Question: since rounded vowels (except maybe back vowels where the difference is hard to hear--i don't know of any language that opposes rounded and unrounded back vowels) don't exist in lojban, would it be permissible to introduce rounded allophones? for instance in order to show that you know other languages besides lojban [bashful snickereen on my part].
klauswho still doesn't know a word a lojban because i'm almost apalled by lojban's neglect for phonetic considerations (constructing words by the letter, whereas i feel that eg tc and tl are just two more ways of releasing the t, in addition to the--do i guess that right?--permitted allophone t').
ps:maybe someone can give me a hint subscribing and unsubscribing. i'm changing providers and get the list on my new address, but i have to send stuff using the old one. did i do something wrong? (obviously.)