Re: [lojban] Lojban: it's not for babies.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

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On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 07:48:28AM -0400, Michael Turniansky wrote:
> .ienai pe'i lo nu le jbocifnu  cu cuxna lo glico mu'i lo ka se
> frili lo nu bacru keiku na.e lo ka tirna gy ca piso'e lo donri .i
> ru'a va'o lo nu da'i lo lojbo cu ralju  lo'i zdani bangu keiku ly
> se nelrai ru
>                 --gejyspa
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> > As of this week, sometimes.
> >
> > Up until then, not really, no; they'd simply elide one letter or the
> > other; {dirba} -> "DIH-ba", "fart" -> "faht", "aunt" -> "aht".
> >
> > There are a lot more English words where that works without
> > confusion, and a *LOT* more English words that simply don't have any
> > significant consonant clusters.  They've been saying "banana" (or at
> > least "nana") for ages, for example.
> >
> > This was my point: given the choice between a language with lots of
> > words they can see, and one with lots they can't, they pick the
> > former.
> >
> > -Robin
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:50:09AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> > > Can they do clusters /at all/?
> > >
> > >
> > > Also, can they say "pigeon"? I ask because if they can say "pigeon", then
> > > {cidja} shouldn't be too far down the road from pronounceable, I expect.
> > >
> > >
> >
> 
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