From xod@xxxx.xxxx Mon Feb 8 09:15:13 1999
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Message-ID: <44114.55.217.959273824@eGroups.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:15:13 -0500 (EST)
From: xod <xod@xxxx.xxxx
Subject: Re: accent

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, michael helsem wrote:

> From: "michael helsem" <graywyvern@hotmail.com>
> 
> xod sez:
> > Why couldn't they pronounce "h"? 
> 
> because (h) is not a letter in lojban. names transliterate with (x) by 
> convention. (to create a lojban (h) i write my name: maiky'elsym & i 
> imagine to a native-lojbanist this'd seem as willfully odd as rappers 
> using a numeral for the corresponding syllable-sound.)
> 
> even in the case of vowel-H-vowel, an english word like "knowhow" 
> contains a glottal-stop we don't write, & to hear ly say "no'au" an 
> english auditor would very likely hear "n'wow".

Still, a Lojban native should be able to pronounce the English "h" because
it's identical to the normal pronounciation of the "'" separator.

A Lojban native might have problems pronouncing the "th" sound. I still
think their intonation would sound odd, because at the very least tone is
used differently than in English.


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