From melissa@fastanimals.com Sun Feb 22 11:48:35 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:58:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [216.127.72.21] (helo=www.simlifecycle.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Auzad-0005EH-MI for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:48:35 -0800 Received: from localhost (melissa@localhost) by www.simlifecycle.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i1MJ5k313816 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:05:47 -0600 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:05:46 -0600 (CST) From: melissa@fastanimals.com X-X-Sender: melissa@www.simlifecycle.com To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Syllable in place of pause Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 508 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: melissa@fastanimals.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Hi all, My husband and I just started studying Lojban. Because we are nerdy and obsessive, we're thinking ahead to the day when Lojban is the interlingua and Lojban speakers rule the world. We figure the pauses will be the first thing to go, in a community of true Lojban speakers. People just aren't going to do that in real life; they'll rely on context to make it clear. But although this is inevitable, it is also anethema to the Lojban philosophy. We looked briefly at Loglan before settling on Lojban. We encountered references to Loglan speakers who use the syllable "gu" (apparently otherwise unassigned) in place of mandatory pauses. Is there a similar convention among Lojban speakers? ObLojban: .a'u.a'o -- Melissa H. Dogmom to Deena the wonder dog Mother to Nicholas, born 11/24/2002