From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 05 23:38:00 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MYwbv-0001Ba-II for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:37:59 -0700 Received: from ol.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.20] helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MYwbq-0001BR-Mx for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:37:59 -0700 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:jwodder@iceland.freeshell.org [192.94.73.5]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n766bk46016471 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 06:37:46 GMT Received: (from jwodder@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.12.8/Submit) id n766bkwJ002916 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 06:37:46 GMT Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 06:37:46 +0000 From: Minimiscience To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Whitespace in written text Message-ID: <20090806063743.GA22093@sdf.lonestar.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org References: <11CC7260-CE8B-47BF-8748-D7596A48218D@choi.name> <200908052219.50632.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-archive-position: 1996 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: minimiscience@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners de'i li 05 pi'e 08 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Joshua Choi .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > 1) Is it okay for the spaces be omitted around a period in Lojban text? I > don't think there can be any ambiguity there: > la mari,as.ninmu .i dunda fi la.alis.fe le cukta .i ta blota .skamyxatra Yes, it is allowed, as long as you don't omit the period as well. > 2) Lojban has mandatory pauses, but is it okay in speech for a pause to > happen anywhere (as it's bound to happen in human conversation): > Spoken: la . mari.as . ninmu . . . i dunda . . fi la .alis. fe le . > cukta . i . ta blota Pauses may occur anywhere between words; they may not occur in the middle of a word, as that would break it apart into two or more words. mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun. -- li'a .e'i ca vondei .i mi na'e pu'i kufra loi vondei