Just wondering, what reasoning was behind the decision to give the "h"
sound a uniquely different symbol, the apostrophe? Was it to emphasize
that it could represent any unused unvoiced fricative? Was it because
it looked nicer in certain cmavo?
On 20 August 2009, at 3:34 PM, Minimiscience wrote:
de'i li 20 pi'e 08 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. tony hall .fy. cusku zoi
skamyxatra.
I'm not sure I understand the apostrophe correctly. Is it
pronounced with an
'h' sound:
.au is pronounced like "ow"
is .a'u pronounced like "ahoo"?
.skamyxatra
That is correct. As a variant, the apostrophe may also be
pronounced as any
unvoiced fricative not already used in Lojban, e.g., [θ], the sound
of the soft
"th" in "thing" (not the hard "th" of "this").
mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.
--
li'a .e'i ca vondei .i mi na'e pu'i kufra loi vondei
