Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban for Beginners lesson 12 answers

["Aleksej R. Serdyukov" <deletesoftware@yandex.ru>]

Cyril Slobin wrote:
> Most of the russians doesn't recognise this rules of reading. If you ask 
> average russian, wich sound is after "m" in "moskva", he replies "o". Of 
> cousre it is lie, but sincere lie. Average russian is not trained in 
> making transcriptions and sincerely belives that it all sounds as it is
> written. Most communication in lojban today is written, not spoken, and 
> "maskva" or something alike is just unrecognizable by native speakers.

I'd say: we are not taught that "o" sounds like "a" or anything - we are 
taught later that the "a" is written "o".