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Re: [lojban] Oral conversation



{ba'a nai ju'o ru'e} Robin speaks to his two daughters at least partially in lojban, and they speak back.

As for clarity of vowels, I try to think of the vowel pronunciations in any language other than English, which I feel has the worst examples for vowel pronunciation if you're looking to speak lojban. I think Italian, Spanish, or Japanese vowel pronunciation is the best for me to model after.

One of the other things I know I need to pay attention to (as an English speaker) is not accidentally saying {ou} when I should be saying {o} in lojban at ends of words.


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:



2014-08-21 18:03 GMT+04:00 TR NS <transfire@gmail.com>:



On Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:56:17 AM UTC-4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 05:42:26 TR NS wrote:
> Does any one have *oral* conversations in Lojban?  More than a few sentence?

There are several Lojbanists in the Bay Area, and there's a Skype group. I
think Arc Balandin is in charge of the Skype group. How much oral Lojban
actually happens, I don't know. I'm willing to talk Lojban on Skype, but today
I'm going back home.

Actually, I was just wondering b/c I was reading about attitudinals and having a hard time imagining there is enough phonological "space" to be very clear when speaking, e.g. mishearing .u'o as u'u takes one from courage to repentance. That's a big difference in meaning for such a small phonological shift. I wonder about this with much of the language, but it stands out here in particular.

You can put the stress on {o} in {.u'o} but you must put a pause after {.u'o} so it will all be {.u'O.} This makes recognition easier.


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