Subject: Re: [lojban] Some questions

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:13:08 -0500

At 02:40 AM 03/16/2001 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> >b) After starting to teach Lojban to some friends, they all shouted out
> >that "This goddamn 'y' letter is all fucked-up.
>
>My feelings precisely.
>
> >Anyone have any explanations?
>
>Speakers of 5-vowel languages were not consulted at the time...

Not directly, though JCB was purportedly fluent in Spanish having lived on 
Ibeza for several years. But we did consult linguists and polyglots (who 
were skilled in several languages including Tommy W. who was trained in 
Modern Hebrew), and the consensus was that the best sixth vowel after a 
five vowel system would have to be the central one, which unstressed (as it 
always is in Lojban) is a schwa.

lojbab
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