Basically, so that it can be used in YACC. To appreciat= e that answer fully, you'd need to know some basic conventions used in cont= ext-free grammar notation.
On Saturday, 24 November 2012 00:30:33 UTC, A= nnie wrote:

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Since it's not really a letter, why would you want to capitalize the a= postrophe?

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On Nov 23, 2012, at 6:20 = PM, mudri <jammya...@gmail.com> wrote:

The curly braces are quotes for Lojban text within = text of other languages. I'm not quite sure why they're used, but it's a ki= nd of standard.

For upper case apostrophe, I'll give the= example of the name of selma'o {KOhA} (again, braces are "quotes"). It is = derrived from {ko'a}. So, as 'K' is capital 'k', 'h' is capital apostrophe.=

On Saturday, 24 November 2012 00:14:36 UTC, Annie wrote:
Are you saying that le= ft-brace is sort of a letter? What do you mean by upper apostrophe, or what= ever?

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On Nov 23, 2012, = at 5:19 PM, mudri <jammya...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just to add something, 'h' is the upper case v= ersion of the apostrophe (both called {.y'y.}). This really only ever occur= s in selma'o names, though it is very common in these.

I= t is called a "half letter" sometimes for various reasons. Matt explained h= ow it only appears between vowels, and is unique in this respect (commas, i= f I remember correctly, can be used next to syllabic consonants - but that'= s unimportant). The apostrophe also has no effect on morphology: CVV and CV= 'V syllables behave identically (other than having different meanings). Fin= ally, it is counted almost literally as half a letter in the lujvo scoring = algorithm. "Something that acts as half a letter", I suppose someone though= t, "should have 'half' a glyph, pe'a".

On Sunday, 18 November 2012 2= 2:50:10 UTC, Annie wrote:
I found o= ut that in Lojban, there's apparently no h. How is that so, when the apostr= ophe is practically the h?

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