Re: Lojbanized German place names

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la .and. pu cusku di'e

> =Could you explain the argument that roundedness does not count?
> =Couldn't the Lojban i/u & e/o distinction be one of roundedness
> =rather than backness?

la nitcion. cusku di'e

> Oh, I dunno, And... I have these horror visions of Lojbanists producing
> back unrounded vowels (which sound hideous enough in British and American
> English --- we Ozzies have the sense to pronounce /u/ in cup as a short
 version
> of /a/ in carp --- both as low centrals, rather than unrounded back vowels,
> mid-open and open resp. One more reason why this is God's own country!

Ahem.  Poms may use a back unrounded vowel there, but We Amerkins use [@],
a mid central unrounded vowel.  As for "carp", that gets four phonemes,
[kaRp], as ol' Caxton plainly intended.

Of course, J.R.R.T. once described American as "English after having been
wiped over with a dirty sponge"....

> zo'osai)

mi'usai

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