Re: [lojban] Icky lujvo

[Sebastian Fröjd <so.cool.ogi@gmail.com>]

But isn't that just a question of practising, or?
I have no problem to pronounce mlomla, mebmla, cibmla, citmle or whatever. 
But then I'm not a natural english-speaker..;)
In fact I like these crunchy words.
Especially citmle. It reminds me of the swedish phrase "shit cute" (=gorgeous).
Good luck with your tongue-twisting exercises;)
zo'o mu'o mi'e jongausib

2011/11/13 Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 01:58:53PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Sunday 13 November 2011 11:19:52 Michael Turniansky wrote:
> >   So, citmle is the same thing -- cit/mle.
>
> But "mlana" or "mlatu" as a word is preceded by a vowel, unless
> it's at the beginning of a sentence or preceded by a cmevla. "ml"
> in "citmle" is preceded by a consonant with no pause.
>
> Do you find "citmle" more or less icky than "cibmla", in which the
> consonant has the same place of articulation as the "m"?

I find them both the same amount of icky, for the reason you
describe.

-Robin

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