Subject: Re: [lojban] Look! I found an error!

From: "michael helsem" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 20:45:47

>From: Arnt Richard Johansen <[email-masked]>
li'o

in fact no lojban vowel directly corresponds to
anything in english, except .ybu --it's unfortunate
when the target is anglophones, but italian et al
map nicely-- our "long O" & "long E" aren't .obu &
.ibu but diphthongs; & our "short E" & "short O"
have way too many pronunciations to be of much use
for .ebu & .abu --i suppose a case can be made for
.ubu as "long OO", except noone but a native speaker
can make head or tail of "long OO" & "short OO" & i
doubt any of THEM can explain why this one or that
one...

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