I'd personally say "imput" in rapid speech, and "gumtree" and--
"camcorder" are more lenient about phonotactics because they're
compound words. But, yeah, English isn't too strict about it in slower
speech, though I'd argue that assimilation happens a lot in rapid
speech. Ask most English speakers to say "He got ten points." rapidly,
they'll probably say "tem points".2012/3/10 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:21 AM, cntrational <cntrational@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In most languages, when nasals come before stops, they generally assimilate
>> to the stop. So, we don't say "inpossble", we say "impossble" -- /np/ is a
>> cluster that's rare in most languages; it's usually changed to /mp/.
>> Similarly for /mt/ → /nt/ and /mk/ → /ŋk/. Which makes it really weird that
>> Lojban *does* allow clusters like /np/. What's up with that? Seems like a
>> pretty glaring omission in the Lojban phonotactic rules, especially
>> considering how common nasal assimilation is in the world.
>
> In English such assimilations don't really happen (cf. "input",
> "gumtree", "camcorder"). "Impossible" came into English with the
> assimilation already there. The designers of Lojban were English
> speakers, not linguists, so Lojban has a strong bias towards English
> phonotactics, not towards what's common in the world.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
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