[lojban] Re: jinku fi la paludizm

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sunday 17 October 2004 23:46, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 07:48:21AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > mi na djuno fi lo blusfani selbei terbilma i xu da krinu lo nu
> > zmanei zo paludizm zo paludism
>
> mi bacru la'o zoi paludism zoi fi'o sance lo simsa be zo paludizm .e
> nai zo paludism .i je mi krici so'a glico cu simsa

I agree; devoicing the 's' just before the voiced 'm' at the end is hard. I 
pronounce it as 'z' in French, and pronounce other words similarly in English 
("paludism" is uncommon in English; it's usually called "malaria"). Spanish 
doesn't have a distinct 'z' phoneme; it's an allophone of 's'. (The letter 
'z' is pronounced 'th' or 's', depending on dialect, and I don't think it 
occurs immediately before 'm'.)

phma
-- 
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci