Re: accent

["michael helsem" <graywyvern@hotmail.com>]

xod sez:
> Why couldn't they pronounce "h"? 

because (h) is not a letter in lojban. names transliterate with (x) by 
convention. (to create a lojban (h) i write my name: maiky'elsym & i 
imagine to a native-lojbanist this'd seem as willfully odd as rappers 
using a numeral for the corresponding syllable-sound.)

even in the case of vowel-H-vowel, an english word like "knowhow" 
contains a glottal-stop we don't write, & to hear ly say "no'au" an 
english auditor would very likely hear "n'wow".