From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Feb 27 17:37:41 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:37:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AwtQD-0008Mh-C7 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:37:41 -0800 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:37:41 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: precise definition of cmene Message-ID: <20040228013740.GH1544@digitalkingdom.org> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20040227185155.03970510@pop.east.cox.net> <20040228013333.44843.qmail@web41906.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040228013333.44843.qmail@web41906.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 544 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 05:33:33PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Bob LeChevalier wrote: > > Over the decades, people have disagreed with the rule, and proposed > > various alternative rules to solve the problem. None has caught on > > enough to be considered. > > One alternative rule which hopefully will be considered when the BPFK > gets to it is discussed here: > http://www.lojban.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=70 > > The proposed rule is that cmene not only end but also start with a > glottal stop, thus making any other restrictions unnecessary. It is worth noting that that rule *has* caught on, at least in the circles I travel in (i.e. people who show up on irc.lojban.org #lojban) -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui