From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 27 11:19:59 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I3c7S-0003rj-4A for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:19:58 -0700 Received: from 25.mail-out.ovh.net ([213.186.37.103]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I3c7J-0003rL-Gt for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:19:57 -0700 Received: (qmail 10214 invoked by uid 503); 27 Jun 2007 18:20:07 -0000 Received: (QMFILT: 1.0); 27 Jun 2007 18:20:07 -0000 Received: from gw2.ovh.net (HELO mail14.ha.ovh.net) (213.251.189.202) by 25.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 27 Jun 2007 18:20:07 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queue-out) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 27 Jun 2007 18:19:43 -0000 Received: from 130.26-225-89.dsl.completel.net (130.26-225-89.dsl.completel.net [89.225.26.130]) by ssl0.ovh.net (IMP) with HTTP for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:19:43 +0200 Message-ID: <1182968383.4682aa3faf490@ssl0.ovh.net> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:19:43 +0200 From: m.kornig@sondal.net To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: I'm... My name's... References: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7E12@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> In-Reply-To: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7E12@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: 89.225.26.130 X-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: 2 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5162 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 in lojban much the same purpose as punctuation in any other > language No, Michael, I don't agree. In a Lojban text, periods are optional. Having them or not having them doesn't change the meaning of the text. In Lojban, periods are not punctuation marks. In fact, there are no punctuation marks as such. To indcate questions or orders you use words like {ma} or {ko}. For seperating sentences there are words like {i}. In English, however, punctuation marks may carry essential information. Consider the following two pairs of sentences if you don't believe me: "Bill and Andy, wait for me!" "Bill and Andy wait for me." "So you trust this man." "So you trust this man?" Cheers, Martin