Re: [lojban] Transliterations survey

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arntrich@stud.ntnu.no>]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Invent Yourself wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
>
> > In many of the examples below, one of the candidate transliterations
> > have a diphthong where the original has a diphthong. I feel very
> > strongly against this.
>
> I don't see how anybody can ever argue for a deviation from the source
> language sounds, unless the deviation is imposed upon us by the lerfu.

Oops, that was a typo.  Thanks for making me aware of it.  The first
sentence of the paragraph above should read:

"In many of the examples below, one of the candidate transliterations have
a diphthong where the original has a monophthong."