Re: [lojban] Brochure updates

[Jim Peters <jim@uazu.net>]

Nick NICHOLAS wrote:
> Unlike the lessons, the brochure has not yet seen substantial review.
> People, *please* comment on it. I don't know what the LLG publication
> schedule is like, but the brochure is going to be published before the
> lessons are, so this has to be gotten right.

Do you want comments to the list or direct to you ?

I'd started reading it before you posted this, and I've already a few
things:

- Right at the start, the pronounciation of so'eroi is written
  "soh-heh-ROI", but shouldn't it be "soh-HEH-roi" according to the
  rules ?

- I have some trouble with the idea of syllabic constanants as
  described.  Why can't Carl, Miriam, Ellen and Burt be written {kal}
  {miriam} {elen} and {byt} ?  Is this my UK English showing ?  I'm
  also using Spanish pronunciation for `r' (as permitted according to
  some other document) as I can't honestly see how to combine an
  English `r' with the pure Spanish-style vowel-sounds.  So {brt}
  sounds like "burut".  If they're only needed for names, no big deal
  if I say them wrong, probably.  Is it just me that's confused ?

- At the end of the phonology section, where it talks about stressing
  the penultimate syllable, I think it would be worth mentioning here
  that apostrophe counts as a syllable boundary, so {blari'o} is three
  syllables.  I was confused about this for some time until I found a
  mention in the reference grammar.

Jim

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