On 23 November 2012 20:28, Annie = <park.annie@asb.gaggle.net> wrote:

I'm confused. Apostrophe is a letter?
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On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:12 PM, selpa'i <m3o@plasmatix.com> wrote:

> There seems to be some confusion here about the apostrophe and capital= letters in Lojban.
>
> Lojban does not use capital letters unless when you wish to mark a str= essed syllable, which is are written using capital letters. It's also l= egal to only capitalize the vowel of that syllable.
>
> For example, dunda might be written DUNda or dUnda, but this is not re= quired. (There are also some other systems in use, like placing accents abo= ve the vowel instead)
>
> Secondly, we've established already that instead of an h, Lojban u= ses the apostrophe for reasons that have been given already. When writing p= arsers for Lojban, in the program/code, you need to use names internally th= at don't interfere with the syntax of the programming language. Usually= , apostrophes can't be used, so in this case, and really only in this c= ase, the apostrophe is replaced by an actual h. You will never see this is = actual Lojban text, so you don't even need to worry about it.
>
> h is the capitalized version of ' simply because ' denotes an = h sound, and so "h" is the most obvious choice for a capital vers= ion of this letter.
>
> "mi'e la selpa'i" would be capitalized as "MIhE= LA SELPAhI", in theory, but again, this is not something that you nee= d to do. It's just simply a fact that ' and h are the lower and upp= er case versions of the same letter. Many also prefer to keep the apostroph= e even in words that are entirely capitalized: "MI'E LA SELPA'= I".
>
> mi'e la selpa'i mu'o
>
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> do=E1=BB=8B m=C3=A8lbi mlen=C3=AC'u
> =C2=A0 .i do c=C3=A0tlu ki'u
> ma fe la x=C3=A0mpre =C5=ADu
> =C2=A0 .i do t=C3=ACnsa c=C3=A0rmi
> gi'e s=C3=ACrji se t=C3=A0rmi
> =C2=A0 .i ta=E1=BB=8B bo pu c=C3=ACtka lo gr=C3=A0na ku
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