From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 26 23:27:44 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I3R09-0005eo-P1 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:27:43 -0700 Received: from 25.mail-out.ovh.net ([213.186.37.103]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I3Qzz-0005eM-3Q for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:27:40 -0700 Received: (qmail 21379 invoked by uid 503); 27 Jun 2007 06:27:48 -0000 Received: (QMFILT: 1.0); 27 Jun 2007 06:27:48 -0000 Received: from b7.ovh.net (HELO mail85.ha.ovh.net) (213.186.33.57) by 25.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 27 Jun 2007 06:27:48 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queue-out) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 27 Jun 2007 06:26:51 -0000 Received: from 98.49-225-89.dsl.completel.net (98.49-225-89.dsl.completel.net [89.225.49.98]) by ssl0.ovh.net (IMP) with HTTP for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:26:51 +0200 Message-ID: <1182925611.4682032bb455b@ssl0.ovh.net> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:26:51 +0200 From: m.kornig@sondal.net To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: I'm... My name's... References: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7E0D@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> In-Reply-To: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7E0D@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.6 X-Originating-IP: 89.225.49.98 X-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: 2 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5159 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: m.kornig@sondal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Selon "Turniansky, Michael \\[UNK\\]" : > Periods are _always_ optional to WRITE, If this is true then maybe you don't need periods at all? Then why not cancel the peiod from the Lojban alphabet? This would have the following advantages: (1) The alphabet would be simpler (and easier to learn). (2) Lojban texts in general would become a bit shorter. (3) Learners would not be confused about the presence or absence of periods any more. Martin