Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 23:45:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alex Richmond <greenslime300@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: End vowel for slot?
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On Saturday, August 23, 2014 9:40:19 PM UTC-7, la gleki wrote:
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> 2014-08-24 4:00 GMT+04:00 Alex Richmond <greens...@gmail.com <javascript:>
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>> This makes me wonder, do the few people that speak Lojban ever tend to 
>> skip the last vowel of popular selbri? For instance, do they ever say 
>> {pend} instead of {pendo}, or {pram} instead of {prami}?
>>
>> I would imagine that people who have been speaking/listening awhile might 
>> elide them sometimes. {ma cmen do} is one example that I could imagine 
>> hearing
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> http://mw.lojban.org/index.php?title=gism
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I do like having the final letter, don't get me wrong. It's certainly 
helped me with memorization. But I could see people eliding it while 
speaking. Is that frowned upon by the community or do people not really 
care? 

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><br><br>On Saturday, August 23, 2014 9:40:19 PM UTC-7, la =
gleki wrote:<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0;margin-lef=
t: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir=3D"ltr"><=
br><div><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2014-08-24 4:00 GMT+04:00 Alex R=
ichmond <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"javascript:" target=3D"_blank" gdf=
-obfuscated-mailto=3D"BIwPQ8alhmsJ" onmousedown=3D"this.href=3D'javascript:=
';return true;" onclick=3D"this.href=3D'javascript:';return true;">greens..=
.@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-=
left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;p=
adding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">This makes me wonder, do the few people t=
hat speak Lojban ever tend to skip the last vowel of popular selbri? For in=
stance, do they ever say {pend} instead of {pendo}, or {pram} instead of {p=
rami}?<br>
<br>I would imagine that people who have been speaking/listening awhile mig=
ht elide them sometimes. {ma cmen do} is one example that I could imagine h=
earing</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href=3D"http://mw.lojban.or=
g/index.php?title=3Dgism" target=3D"_blank" onmousedown=3D"this.href=3D'htt=
p://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fmw.lojban.org%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3=
Dgism\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNEbtHDYakSnJkA8wS8r6uSWkJMN2Q';retu=
rn true;" onclick=3D"this.href=3D'http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%=
2Fmw.lojban.org%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3Dgism\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQ=
jCNEbtHDYakSnJkA8wS8r6uSWkJMN2Q';return true;">http://mw.lojban.org/index.<=
wbr>php?title=3Dgism</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div=
><div><br></div><div>I do like having the final letter, don't get me wrong.=
 It's certainly helped me with memorization. But I could see people eliding=
 it while speaking. Is that frowned upon by the community or do people not =
really care?&nbsp;</div></div>

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