Re: fortis vs lenis (was Re: German style orthography)

>Sanskrit, e.g., and I suppose that this distinction is also found in modern
>Indian languages. Phonetically, the "voiced aspirated" stops are "breathy
>voiced". I remember I've read as an explanation that there's not a real
>aspiration, but that the following vowel starts voiceless. However, I don't
>understand how this is really different from an aspiration.
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I know that some at least still have the unvoiced aspirated stops...
although I have a friend called "Rekha" (I think that's how you spell
it) and I was trying to pronounce her name right (apparently not enough
aspiration on my part?) and eventually she said "It doesn't matter
anyway. A lot of native speakers don't pronounce it right anymore." I
forget which Indian language she speaks though...