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Re: h as buffer vowel

To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
Subject: Re: h as buffer vowel
From: John Cowan <cbmvax!UUNET.UU.NET!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1992 12:30:35 EST
In-Reply-To: <9202150653.AA18546@relay1.UU.NET>; from "F. Schulz" at Feb 14, 92 9:51 pm
Reply-To: John Cowan <cbmvax!UUNET.UU.NET!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan>
Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!LOJBAN>

la frank. cylts. cusku di'e

> I have trouble pronouncing nasal+homoorganic clusters. I find
>         dinju and rinju
> impossible because of the bad -inj- cluster. I tend to convert
>         inj  ->  indj
> no matter how careful I am.

But we carefully specified triple clusters so that "ndj" cannot occur.
So go ahead and pronounce "rindju" with a good conscience, because it
will be understood as "rinju".

Similarly, "ntc", "ndz", and "nts" are forbidden, and will be taken as
"nc", "nz", and "ns".

--
cowan@snark.thyrsus.com         ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban

References:
- h as buffer vowel
  - From: "F. Schulz" <cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!fschulz>

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