Re: CONLANG Digest

At 18:02 09/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>> And it's true that you mustn't insert anything (not even a schwa) in
>> consonnant clusters, which is sometimes difficult.
>
>As in monsters like _sciencio_ /stsien'tsio/.  I feel really sorry for
>people whose native language is Japanese or something with a similarly
>restricted syllable-structure.
>
Me too! But strangely, all Japanese esperantists that I heard of had no
problem with the consonnant clusters (at least that's what they say
themselves), but were quite puzzled by the difference between /r/ and /l/.
Generally, when someone says: "Esperanto is too difficult for Japanese
people and the like, due to its difficult consonnant clusters", Japanese
esperantists answer: "It's very kind of you to feel concerned, but we help
ourselves quite well, thank you" :))

                                                Christophe Grandsire
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