Re: [lojban] Cool

[Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com>]

On 22 August 2010 16:15, Warrigal <ihope127+w@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the contrary, as long as you're using an appropriate pronunciation
> of {r} (/ɹ/ is my favorite), pronouncing {grk} without a schwa is
> easy, if you know what you're doing.


A great majority of people don't know what they're doing though. Most
of the people are actually "deaf" to schwa, so to speak, ironically
especially those whose native languages feature clusters like these in
which the r is treated as a syllabic consonant but actually realised
either as R-coloured schwa
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-colored_vowel) or as schwa followed by
r. Thus many people would truly think that they're saying {grk} when
they would actually be saying {gyrk} simply because they don't hear
the schwa and instead perceive {yr} simply as syllabic r. Yes,
pronouncing this cluster without schwa is "easy if you know what
you're doing", which means precisely that it's not easy.



Off-topic fact, "Grk" is actually a proper word in Serbo-Croatian,
meaning "male Greek person" and is pronounced /ˈɡəɾk/.

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