From jkominek@miranda.org Wed Jan 19 16:31:29 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:31:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from miranda.org ([209.58.150.153] ident=qmailr) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CrQET-0007xQ-1I for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:31:29 -0800 Received: (qmail 20801 invoked by uid 534); 20 Jan 2005 00:31:26 -0000 From: jkominek@miranda.org Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:31:26 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: apostrophes? Message-ID: <20050120003126.GD12565@miranda.org> References: <41EEFA48.7020900@gulik.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41EEFA48.7020900@gulik.co.nz> Accept-Language: jbo, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-archive-position: 1040 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.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: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:24:40PM +1300, Michael van der Gulik wrote: > Why does Lojban use apostrophes instead of "h"'s? Because ' isn't h. > It seems much more natural to use "h"'s, as it keeps words together > (consider that an apo'stro'phe ins'er'ts sp'ac'es i'n'to wo'rds, > breaking them up and making them harder to read as one word). That apostrophes seem to break up words is a matter of opinion. I don't feel that they break words up at all. > Is it acceptable to use, e.g. "keha" instead of "ke'a"? Or will people > become angry? You'll find some people who won't mind. I'll probably just refuse to understand you. Same as if you were to use unofficial gismu. -- Jay Kominek