Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Transliterations survey

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:34:01 -0400 (EDT)

Andrew Smith scripsit:

> Quite a good quadri-consonantal cluster in the middle there! I suppose if
> saying it quickly you might drop the [T], mind you.

I think dropping the [s] more likely myself.

> At first, it was pronounced
> on the television news as [dZunta] as if it was an English word,

The American announcers said [hunta] pretty much from the beginning, IIRC.
But they, or their successors made up for it during the war with
[air&k].

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