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Re: [lojban] To Polish fellow lojbanists



Dnia czwartek, 30 września 2010 o 00:30:07 Pierre Abbat napisał(a):
> 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.

{ei} is a diphtong; we don't have "official" diphtongs in Polish, but the difference between "pei" (for {pe'i}) and "pej" (for {pei}) is very clear. When I want to be really precise when I'm writing "phonetically" using Polish ortography, I write "pe-i" for {pe'i} (assuming silent {'}, of course).
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