From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jun 07 08:28:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 7 Jun 2001 15:28:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 3175 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 15:27:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 Jun 2001 15:27:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 15:27:42 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 1581hG-0003Pq-00 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2001 08:27:42 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 08:27:42 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Sound recordings for the lessons Message-ID: <20010607082742.G2481@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:45:06AM -0400, Craig wrote: > Technically this is unrelated, but it's still a pronunciation thing. Since > lojban. does not use the sound we spell th in english, maybe we should use > that instead of h for apostrophes. I don't know about the rest of you, but I > have trouble differentiating between the ' and the x when I speak with the > standard pronunciation. What do you think? xy. is a hard, german 'ch' as in 'bach'. That's about as far from a breathy english 'h' as in 'Oh hello' I can imagine whilst still having any similarity at all. What is your native language? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/