From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Oct 17 01:42:50 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ERQa1-0002KH-R7 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:42:49 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ERQa1-0002KA-H4 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:42:49 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:42:49 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Period Message-ID: <20051017084249.GC25303@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 2391 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 Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:34:23PM +1000, Naomi K wrote: > Is it allowable to use the lojban period to the same purpose as an > English comma (show pauses for the reader)? In fact, that is the only thing that a Lojban period *can* indicate: it means "pause here". However, it really shouldn't be used for hesitation pauses (that's .y.) or to group clauses (that's not done with pausing in Lojban). -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/