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Re: "mz"; buffer vowels
la djulian. pardos. cusku di'e
> What did little "mz" do to anybody to deserve this fate? (And how
> come "ns" didn't do it too?)
The belief is that "mz" and "nz" are too similar and easy to confuse, so
no Lojban word can differ only on this point.
> I'm a bit worried about how I'd cope with buffer vowels in practice.
> (And like many English English speakers I'm not too good with "r"s so
> I'm going to need one if I'm going to cope with words like {gugdrne-
> tiopia} -- or is {gugdyrnetiopia} a valid realization?)
No, it isn't. The answer to the "r" is "Trill it."
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