On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Wednesday 29 September 2010 17:01:20 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> IIRC, pronouncing {'} as "h" was at one point in time optional, in the same
> way that adding the "i" in "fit" (or any other very short vowel) is
> optional for difficult consonant clusters, as in {zdani} (ZiDANI). I'm not
> certain when it was decided the {'} = "h" stopped being optional, but I
> say, if you want to pronounce {mi'e} as {mi,e}, all that really matters is
> that you're understood.
That would work with "mi'e", as there is no word "mie", but it wouldn't work
with "pe'i" or "ta'i" as the words "pei" and "tai" exist and are in the same
respective selma'o. Commas make no difference to the identity of a word.
Pierre
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