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RE: [lojban] What's the logic behind Lojban's sound system?
- To: "lojban" <lojban@yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: RE: [lojban] What's the logic behind Lojban's sound system?
- From: "And Rosta" <a-rosta@alphaphe.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:41:18 +0100
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Robin.tr:
> On Monday 29 April 2002 18:44, And Rosta wrote:
>
> > #>The phonology of /'/ and /@/, where /@/ = buffer vowel is so stupid
> > #>-- so unlike anything in natlangs -- that it is simply indefensible.
>
> I don't know about that. Colloquial Turkish uses a short "i" (that's an
> English "i", not a Lojban "i"!) or occasionally "ü" to buffer foreign words,
> e.g. "film" is often pronounced "filim" and "studyo", "sütüdyo".
The thing I consider stupid is the definition of their realizations
as "none of the above". The notion of epenthetic vowels is a perfectly
natural one, which I'm all in favour of.
--And.