From pycyn@aol.com Wed Aug 30 07:28:45 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15668 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2000 14:28:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Aug 2000 14:28:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r03.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.3) by mta2 with SMTP; 30 Aug 2000 14:28:45 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.15.) id a.c3.8c0bae2 (4235) for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:28:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:28:28 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: learning lojban To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com In a message dated 00-08-30 06:31:46 EDT, garrett writes: << Is that an affect of being a native speaker of english, where the consonant sounds outnumber the vowels? >> Consonant sounds always outnumber vowels (well, ...). The English problem is that we tend to reduce all unstressed vowels to schwa, a wishy-washy mid central vowel. In addition we tend to be pretty uninterested in the ends of words generally, since we add all the boring stuff there and put the content up front.