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Re: [lojban] the "t" in jetnu and a go'i question



sance on jbotcan
also, I have no idea how you'd say jetnu without an unfinalised t.

On Fri Jan 8th, 2010 10:45 PM PST Luke Bergen wrote:

>First question:
>I was practicing my lojban the other day when I realized that sometimes I
>pronounce the "t" as kind of a short stop in the vowel before.  A good word
>for describing this is "jetnu".
>Is this acceptable?  http://www.filedropper.com/jetnu1_1
>Or am I being a lazy english speaker and should really say it like:
>http://www.filedropper.com/jetnu2
>
>Second question:
>I think I've asked this before but I don't remember ever getting a
>consistent answer.  If I say {mi klama ta .i go'i fe lo zarci} is it
>believed that I am going to "there which is a store" or "there and also a
>store (separate things)" or "a store (the {ta} has been replaced by {lo
>zarci})"?  Or is it something else entirely.
>
>
>Also, if anyone knows off hand of a better site for dropping small files on
>the web I'd love to hear about it.