In English such assimilations don't really happen (cf. "input",
"gumtree", "camcorder"). "Impossible" came into English with the
assimilation already there. The designers of Lojban were English
speakers, not linguists, so Lojban has a strong bias towards English
phonotactics, not towards what's common in the world.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
2012/3/10 Jorge Llambías <jjlla...@gmail.com>:
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I don't know offhand, but there are plenty of clashes in lujvo if nasals are
assimilated.
Pierre
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(I also used to pronounce my ' as [T], a nonstandard-but-valid value
for it, because I was having trouble making it sufficiently distinct
from x, but my x has improved and I don't need to do that anymore.)
- mi'e .kreig.daniyl.
English place assimilation is very active, but (i) it targets /n, d, t/, (ii) it's leftwards, (iii) it's mostly optional (a lazy way of saying that in certain environments it's optional and in certain environments it's obligatory).
It's true that the designers of Lojban knew little linguistics, but quite a few aspects of Lojban phonotactics are weird for English too.
--And.
Another well-known invented language is sanskrit, and it was designed
so as to render this kind of "phonetic accident" impossible.
mi'e cntr
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