Re: [lojban] To Polish fellow lojbanists

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 29 September 2010 12:37:56 Krzysztof Sobolewski wrote:
> So could some confirm that using the same sound for {x} and {'} does not
> introduce ambiguity? :)

Counterexample: "trixexo" or "trixexu" (they're variants) 
means "manatee"; "trixe'o" means something like "attractive and kind" 
and "trixe'u" means some combination of "attract" and "regret".

Another counterexample: "ko'otli" (coyote) breaks up into "ko xotli" (be a 
hotel) if mispronounced.

Pierre
-- 
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li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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