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Re: [lojban] Some questions
- To: Avital Oliver <biomass@hobbiton.org>
- Subject: Re: [lojban] Some questions
- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:02:09 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com
- In-reply-to: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103160819480.31374-100000@thorin> from Avital Oliver at "Mar 16, 2001 08:25:39 am"
Avital Oliver scripsit:
> > and don't know how to distinguish samekh from sin.
> The average Israeli would probably laugh at you .u'i.
Obviously the Right Thing is to pronounce samekh as [s] and sin as [K}; i.e.,
voiceless lateral fricative!
(It must have had a lateral component at one time, as in the classic example of
Eng. "balsam" from a cognate of B-Sin-M.)
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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