Re: Alphabet

Christian Thalmann wrote:
> It completely escapes my understanding how anyone could consider [t] to
> be softer than [d], or [f] softer than [v].
While I can't understand how [d] or [v] could be considered soft!
Voiceless sounds are quieter, softer, they sound more gentle.  [safa]
would sound to me like a word for something soft, like, "cloud" or
"water" or "sleep" or something, while [zava] would be harder, like
"rock", "hit", "hammer" or something of that nature.

> Try saying [afata] and
> [avada], that should make it clear.  In the first utterance, the
> consonants interrupt the flow of the word with percussive unvoicedness,
> while the second word glides off the tongue in a single soft mellifluous curve.
If you say so.  :-)  [afata] sounds much softer and gentler to me than
[avada].

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