From chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk Sun Aug 29 16:20:19 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk ([195.92.193.210]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C1YyB-0003zd-6e for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:20:19 -0700 Received: from modem-205.phosphorus.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.14.205] helo=crh37) by cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1C1YyB-0000tW-R9 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:20:20 +0100 From: "Chris Howlett" To: Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: la'i. - Unique semantics of letter combinations? Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:21:35 +0100 Message-ID: <000501c48e1e$edf4c120$cd0e883e@crh37> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal X-archive-position: 774 X-Approved-By: chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk 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: chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners My mistake, sorry. The rest of what I said still stands, though - in fact more than before! {'} does not cause a pause, merely a "h" sound to be inserted. {.} is a definite pause for a glottal stop. mi'e kris. > -----Original Message----- > From: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org > [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org] On > Behalf Of jexOm. > Sent: 29 August 2004 23:58 > To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org > Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: la'i. - Unique > semantics of letter combinations? > > > Note : > {'} is not the syllabe separator, {,} is. > {'} is pronounced 'h' like in "hello". > Jérôme. > > Le 30 août 04, à 00:48, Chris Howlett a écrit : > > > As I understand it, the difference occurs because "la'i lojban" is > > actually pronounced subtly differently from "la .ilojban". > The ' - a > > syllable separator - is not so much a pause as just a means of > > changing syllables. It's often written as a light h. In > contrast, . is > > a glottal stop, a very real pause. As an example, consider the name > > "Ryan". As it's pronounced (where I live at least!), that > could just > > about be lojbanised as "rai'an". The alternative "rai.an" > would become > > in English something more akin to "rye - an", where the gap > includes a > > glottal stop > > (the vocal thing where you push air through a closed > throat, forcing it > > open. You'll do it automatically if you try to say just "ah".) > > > > Hope that made sense - it's very hard discussing > pronunciation through > > text! > > > > mi'e kris. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org > >> [mailto:lojban-beginne rs-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org]On > >> Behalf Of Jens-Wolfhard Schicke > >> Sent: 29 August 2004 11:03 > >> To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org > >> Subject: [lojban-beginners ]la'isomename.-Unique > >> semantics of letter combinations? > >> > >> > >> I read the claim, that > >>> A stream of Lojban sounds can be uniquely broken up into > >> its component > >>> words according to specific rules. > >> [ Reference Grammar, Chapter 4 ] > >> > >> So how abount the stream > >> > >> .imiskicula'ilojban. > >> > >> Where do I know from whether I describe the thing named > "'ilojban" or > >> the set of named "lojban"? > >> > >> BTW: > >> ~ # ./jbofihe > >> .imiskicula'ilojban. > >> Unrecognizable word ''ilojban' at line 1 column 12 > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > >