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Re: [txeqli] Re: Lojban 'h'



on 4/29/02 5:28 PM, uaxuctum at uaxuctum@hidden.email wrote:

> If there's something I definitely dislike in Lojban
> that's its continuous use of sound h. It seems as
> though I had a cough when I pronounce Lojban.

Me too, really.  Let's keep h as a consonant.
> 
> I think it would be better if you allowed pinvor to
> be not only CV and CVhV, but also CVV (i.e. CV?V)
> and CVjV and CVwV at least. That would introduce
> more phonic variety. Just a suggestion.

I could go along with CV(S)(V) where S is semivowel j or w.  I don't know
how to indicate this with this neat symbolism, but we can have CV, CVV (with
one V possibly a semivowel) or CVVV, with the middle V a semivowel or both
the first and third a semivowel.   If we do that, we'd prohibit ea and have
eja instead.  Also ejo instead of eo.

But if we prohibited VVV in pinvor, and allowed it in prea (preya?), we'd
still get the phonetic variety.  and it could be that CV(V) is enough
pinvor.

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