From phma@oltronics.net Mon Jun 26 19:48:02 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13592 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2000 02:47:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Jun 2000 02:47:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Jun 2000 02:47:59 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA13554 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:47:51 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.50, neofelis, , 207.15.133.50 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 22:47:56(EDT) on June 26, 2000 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] Names of characters Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:38:28 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0006262247490J.01794@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Elrond wrote: >> " - lubu >won't "lubu" be parsed as "lu bu" (and probably make the following >ungrammatical) ? >The jbofi'e goes crazy with the even bridi "zo lubu cu valsi". "zo" quotes the next word, meaning the next single cmavo, not compound cmavo, if it's a cmavo. >> $ - rupnu bu >this clashes with the "Yen" and "Cent" and "Euro" symbols >why not meryru'u bu ? >and ponru'ubu and ronru'ubu for others ? Fepni bu is a cent sign, and there are other countries that call their currency "dollar" and use "$" for it. As to ponru'u bo, agreed. >> @ - abubu (?) >I never thought that "@" had anything to do with "a"... At least not in >the phonological sense... >I may be wrong, but isn't there more obvious meaning of the "@" that could >be used for its name ? Nor do the letters A, E, O, and U, as letters, have anything to do with logical conjunctions. There are all sorts of names for "@": snail, arroba, a commercial (I thought that meant "commercial at", but apparently not), monkey tail, and even horse (which happens to be "at" in Turkish). phma