Subject: RE: sts- [was: RE: [lojban] Brochure updates

From: "Craig" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:55:17 -0400

>Jorge Llambias wrote:
>> la maikl cusku di'e
>>
>> >i gave up esperanto because i couldn't say STS-
>>
>> STS is a legal cluster in Lojban: e.g. xastsani
>> (stsi'i is a valid fu'ivla).
>>
>> It also occurs in English: e.g. "bestseller".
>>
>> Hopefully you won't give up these two too!

>Surely also the plural of any word ending in "st"?
>Beasts, feasts, fests, breasts, guests, bequests, quests, forests...

But English and lojban do not expect STSTS, and can be typed on a normal
roman-alphabet keyboard. Lojban has harder consonant clusters than
Esperanto, but one of the things that sold me on lojban is that if you can't
say them, we have buffer vowels. They don't. And the weird letters and
absurdities were both major turn-offs about esperanto.
I wasn't actually looking to learn an artificial language, but lojban seemed
to offer more than even any natural languages - and esperanto seemed like
another natural language that happened not to be natural.

Question for Esperantists: Is a female eunuch a neutrino?

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