Re: Re: [lojban] To Polish fellow lojbanists

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Even if I was very tempted of using silent {'} (it's only sound that is very difficult for Italians) I agree that this is not a good idea. The problem is how to force a TTS (and specifically IVONA that is so good) to emit a sound that would be an acceptable rendition of it.

I'm not clear how we could use "th" as other suggested. Does it mean that we could pronounce {pe'i} as "pethi"?

On , Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/9/30 Krzysztof Sobolewski jezuch@interia.pl>:
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> >
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> > {ei} is a diphtong; we don't have "official" diphtongs in Polish, but
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> > the difference between "pei" (for {pe'i}) and "pej" (for {pei}) is
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> > very clear. When I want to be really precise when I'm writing
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> > "phonetically" using Polish ortography, I write "pe-i" for {pe'i}
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> > (assuming silent {'}, of course).
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> I don't mean to be a downer, but I really don't think that inventing
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> this new (non)pronunciation for {'} is a good idea at all.  You should
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> just learn to produce one of the official pronunciations of {'}.
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> We've all had to learn a few new sounds to pronounce Lojban-- {x} and
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> final {e} and initial {zd} and {ml} caused me trouble at first, for
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> instance.  We don't always get it right (I certainly don't always) but
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> we've come to an agreement over time about what's sufficiently
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> distinct and what's Lojbanic.  It'll do your mouth good to learn
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> something new anyway.  Both of the usual pronunciations of {'} are
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> necessary for speaking English properly, for instance (which you've
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> clearly put some work into studying, since you write it quite well),
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> as well as many other languages.
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> mi'e
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> la stela selckiku
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> mu'o
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