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[2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::236]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b198si455781ywa.7.2017.06.24.04.53.05 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 24 Jun 2017 04:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of ciuak.prog@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::236 as permitted sender) client-ip=2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::236; Received: by mail-qt0-x236.google.com with SMTP id i2so50477607qta.3 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 04:53:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.200.8.148 with SMTP id v20mr11613229qth.213.1498305184702; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 04:53:04 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.36.209 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 04:53:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <02f60f56-9f52-4a1f-9c2f-5013407e6531@googlegroups.com> From: uakci Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:53:04 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] Apologia, using h instead of yhy To: lojban@googlegroups.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="001a11459d104ca76d0552b35c72" X-Original-Sender: ciuak.prog@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com header.b=bWzQocI4; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ciuak.prog@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::236 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ciuak.prog@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Spam-Checked-In-Group: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: , List-Unsubscribe: , X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_bar: - --001a11459d104ca76d0552b35c72 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable also, my 3 cents: <'> can be used for any other unused fricative sound (as described in the CLL), so it needn't be pronounced /h/ all the time, especially when one's native language doesn't have /h/. then, if we picked to symbolize some non-/h/ sound, would it make sense anymore? (I'm not sure about that, but I guess that the founding fathers of the CLL were sure that using the grapheme would mess things up.) =E2=80=94mi'e la rupnu be li pi no ci be'o se ju la uakci 2017-06-24 11:18 GMT+02:00 Remo Dentato : > I've been away from lojban from quite some time but I'm still following > the language development. > For what is worth, I believe using ' rather than h has proven itself not > to bring any advantage. > The reasons brought up in CLL don't really stand, imho. I don't see how > explaining morphology is any simpler or what harms causes 'h' being > "heavier" than '. > As you rightly pointed out, it makes writing program that parse lojban > text (slightly) more complex that it should be. > Also on any computer system we *have* to use h in identifiers as the > single quote has a special meaninge (e.g. jbofihe). > Also, at least to me, the quote visually breaks the continuity of the tex= t > and it requires much more focus and attention to read. > > By the way, Italian (my mother tongue) has no /h/ sound and this makes > difficult for me to correctly pronounce ' . The letter 'h' has no > phonological value (is never pronounced) but it's used sa a mark to > distinguinsh (in writing) words with the same sound: > > hanno -> they have > anno -> year > > or change the pronunciation of c and g before i and e: > > CIao t=CA=83 > > CHIave k > > > GIoco d=CA=92 > > GHIro =C9=A1 > > > That said, I think that slipping toward h and leaving ' as an historical > feature would only be beneficial for the language. > > muho mihe la remod. > > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:34 AM, wrote: > >> >> I was questioned on my usually using "h" instead of " ' " in lojban, >> so I would like to explain my reasoning and usage preference, >> and I invite constructive criticism, since I am surely open to reason in >> reconsidering the issue. >> >> First, like every supreme court justice nominee I have ever heard, >> I understand the great value of "stare decicis", "let what is decided >> stand". >> Zamenhof laid down the unchangeable Fundamento to avoid the chaos >> of endless amendments by creative conlangers. >> Still which "decisis" are the ones that must "stare"? >> >> From 1955, TLI loglan had no kind of "h" or "x" until 1981, >> when the former was added as a regular consonant phoneme, >> and the latter was its special-case colleague. >> This is still true of TLI Loglan. >> By 1989, LLG loglan/lojban arose with a regular consonant "x" and a >> special " ' ". >> >> In CLL1, the pronunciation is canonical, even if inexact, >> but for the orthography there is a standard form, >> as well as two alternatives that seem to be accepted (Cyrillic and >> Tengwar), >> plus the International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA, used as the standard by >> which you define everything else. >> That is four orthographies. >> >> In the usage of other lojbanists I see experiments in orthography, >> e.g. the grave accents placed on accented vowels, >> or the underdots or over-breves placed on semivowels, or even a few >> people using h. >> I think my usage is not far from the mainstream, >> and I coexist happily with those who write differently. >> >> My actual extremest position is to use IPA in a broad transcription when >> your fonts support it, >> but to do CLL with h when ASCII-only is required. >> The IPA is a very widely accepted international standard. >> An IPA dress for lojban does not look that strange or different; see thi= s >> example. >> >> >> >> >> Now, which spelling is better and why? >> >> In CLL1 3.3 the apostrophe, period, and comma are grouped together as >> characters that divide syllables, >> but the period and comma are silent ways of separating words or syllable= s, >> while the apostrophe is an audible way to separate syllables >> in precisely the same way that "t" separates the syllables in "mlatu". >> Nothing special there. >> >> In the same section, we read >> The letter "h" is not used to represent this sound for two reasons: >> primarily in order to simplify explanations of the morphology, >> but also because the sound is very common, and the apostrophe >> is a visually lightweight representation of it. >> >> The sound is not so very common as to justifying it being a special case= . >> In 130000 words of lojban I can quickly lay my hands on, the letter >> frequencies are as follows. >> 55421 i >> 46986 a >> 43758 u >> 38175 o >> 36048 l >> 27341 e >> 26722 n >> 21790 h/' >> 20522 c >> 17803 s >> 16437 r >> 14279 m >> 13755 t >> 13551 k >> 10828 d >> 9181 b >> 8832 p >> 7037 j >> 5199 g >> 5017 f >> 4713 y >> 4250 z >> 4130 v >> 3530 x >> The h trails behind all the basic vowels and behind the consonants l and >> n, too, in frequency of use. >> >> Even the measured time it takes to pronounce h, 77-109 msec for me, >> similar in published results for other languages, is not like quicksilve= r. >> In this respect, h is one of the faster fricatives, but in the middle of >> the pack for vowels, stops, and liquids. >> So, why does it need a "lightweight" graphical representation? >> >> What about the argument that spelling with apostrophe instead of h >> simplifies explanations of morphology? >> Except for "e" and "o" having the same phonology rules, >> every other pair of letters differs in its allowed usages -- they are al= l >> special cases. >> The h is far more constrained than the other consonants in its usage, >> but it appears in every type of word except the gismu. >> >> I think the principal rule that makes h seem special is the constraint >> that brivla have a consonant pair in the first five letters of the word, >> after excluding h and y. >> Still, if in this respect h is not a real consonant and y is not a real >> vowel, >> then why is y allowed in the alphabet, but h not? >> >> In terms of practical convenience, it is nice to be able to search in an >> editor for whole words >> and have the editor software agree with you about what characters occur >> in words. >> Typing /[a-z]+/ is much nicer than /[a-z',]+/. >> And who wants to have to hack emacs syntax tables to search for words? >> >> So, after I come to the conclusion that h/' ought to be in the alphabet >> as much as y or any consonant, >> I think about how best to represent it. >> The answer to that depends on past usage in other languages and on our >> desire to take advantage of >> habit and familiarity to assist those learning lojban. >> All the languages with latin alphabets that I know of that use the h sou= nd >> also use the h grapheme to represent it. >> French lacks the sound so it uses the letter as a separator. >> Spanish has only x which is written j. >> Ancient Greek used to have a rough breathing sound represented by >> a left-side arc or the left half of capital HTA, >> while the apostrophe-looking mark represented the lack of an h at the >> start of a word. >> Modern Greek has no h sound, just a x. >> >> The use of "h" for the unvoiced glottal fricative seems like a slam dunk >> choice to me. >> >> mihe la bremenli >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group= s >> "lojban" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send a= n >> email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/lojban. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "lojban" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/lojban. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. 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also, my 3 cents:
<'> can be = used for any other unused fricative sound (as described in the CLL), so it = needn't be pronounced /h/ all the time, especially when one's nativ= e language doesn't have /h/. then, if we picked <h> to symbolize = some non-/h/ sound, would it make sense anymore? (I'm not sure about th= at, but I guess that the founding fathers of the CLL were sure that using t= he grapheme <h> would mess things up.)


=E2=80=94mi&#= 39;e la rupnu be li pi no ci be'o se ju la uakci

2017-06-24 11:18 GMT+02:00 Rem= o Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>:
I'= ve been away from lojban from quite some time but I'm still following t= he language development.
For what is worth, I believe using ' rathe= r than h has proven itself not to bring any advantage.
The r= easons brought up in CLL don't really stand, imho.=C2=A0 I don't se= e how explaining morphology is any simpler or what harms causes 'h'= being "heavier" than '.
As you rightly pointed out,= it makes writing program that parse lojban text (slightly) more complex th= at it should be.
Also on any computer system we *have* to use h in ident= ifiers as the single quote has a special meaninge (e.g. jbofihe).
Also, = at least to me, the quote visually breaks the continuity of the text and it= requires much more focus and attention to read.

By the = way, Italian (my mother tongue) has no /h/ sound and this makes difficult f= or me to correctly pronounce ' . The letter 'h' has no phonolog= ical value (is never pronounced) but it's used sa a mark to distinguins= h (in writing) words with the same sound:

=C2=A0=C2=A0 hanno -= > they have
=C2=A0=C2=A0 anno -> year

or change= the pronunciation of c and g before i and e:

=C2=A0 CIao= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 t=CA=83
=C2=A0 CHIave k

=C2=A0=C2=A0
=C2=A0 GIoco=C2=A0 d=CA=92
=C2=A0 GHIro=C2=A0 =C9=A1<= /a>

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:34 AM, <v= pbroman@gmail.com> wrote:
<= div dir=3D"ltr">


I was questioned on = my usually using "h" instead of " ' " in lojban,so I would like to explain my reasoning and usage preference,
and I inv= ite constructive criticism, since I am surely open to reason in reconsideri= ng the issue.

First, like every supreme court justice nominee I have= ever heard,
I understand the great value of "stare decicis", = "let what is decided stand".
Zamenhof laid down the unchangeab= le Fundamento to avoid the chaos
of endless amendments by creative conla= ngers.
Still which "decisis" are the ones that must "star= e"?

From 1955, TLI loglan had no kind of "h" or "= ;x" until 1981,
when the former was added as a regular consonant ph= oneme,
and the latter was its special-case colleague.
This is still t= rue of TLI Loglan.
By 1989, LLG loglan/lojban arose with a regular conso= nant "x" and a special " ' ".

In CLL1, the p= ronunciation is canonical, even if inexact,
but for the orthography ther= e is a standard form,
as well as two alternatives that seem to be accept= ed (Cyrillic and Tengwar),
plus the International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA= , used as the standard by which you define everything else.
That is four= orthographies.

In the usage of other lojbanists I see experiments i= n orthography,
e.g. the grave accents placed on accented vowels,
or t= he underdots or over-breves placed on semivowels, or even a few people usin= g h.
I think my usage is not far from the mainstream,
and I coexist h= appily with those who write differently.

My actual extremest positio= n is to use IPA in a broad transcription when your fonts support it,
but= to do CLL with h when ASCII-only is required.
The IPA is a very widely = accepted international standard.
An IPA dress for lojban does not look t= hat strange or different; see this example.


Now, which spelling is better and why?
In CLL1 3.3 the apostrophe, period, and comma are grouped together as = characters that divide syllables,
but the period and comma are silent wa= ys of separating words or syllables,
while the apostrophe is an audible = way to separate syllables
in precisely the same way that "t" s= eparates the syllables in "mlatu".
Nothing special there.
<= br>In the same section, we read
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 The letter "h&qu= ot; is not used to represent this sound for two reasons:
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0 primarily in order to simplify explanations of the morphology,
=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 but also because the sound is very common, and the apostrop= he
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 is a visually lightweight representation of it.
The sound is not so very common as to justifying it being a special ca= se.
In 130000 words of lojban I can quickly lay my hands on, the letter = frequencies are as follows.
55421 i
46986 a
43758 u
38175 o
= 36048 l
27341 e
26722 n
21790 h/'
20522 c
17803 s
164= 37 r
14279 m
13755 t
13551 k
10828 d
=C2=A09181 b
=C2=A08= 832 p
=C2=A07037 j
=C2=A05199 g
=C2=A05017 f
=C2=A04713 y
= =C2=A04250 z
=C2=A04130 v
=C2=A03530 x
The h trails behind all the= basic vowels and behind the consonants l and n, too, in frequency of use.<= br>
Even the measured time it takes to pronounce h, 77-109 msec for me,<= br>similar in published results for other languages, is not like quicksilve= r.
In this respect, h is one of the faster fricatives, but in the middle= of the pack for vowels, stops, and liquids.
So, why does it need a &quo= t;lightweight" graphical representation?

What about the argumen= t that spelling with apostrophe instead of h
simplifies explanations of = morphology?
Except for "e" and "o" having the same p= honology rules,
every other pair of letters differs in its allowed usage= s -- they are all special cases.
The h is far more constrained than the = other consonants in its usage,
but it appears in every type of word exce= pt the gismu.

I think the principal rule that makes h seem special i= s the constraint
that brivla have a consonant pair in the first five let= ters of the word, after excluding h and y.
Still, if in this respect h i= s not a real consonant and y is not a real vowel,
then why is y allowed = in the alphabet, but h not?

In terms of practical convenience, it is= nice to be able to search in an editor for whole words
and have the edi= tor software agree with you about what characters occur in words.
Typing= /[a-z]+/ is much nicer than /[a-z',]+/.
And who wants to have to ha= ck emacs syntax tables to search for words?

So, after I come to the = conclusion that h/' ought to be in the alphabet as much as y or any con= sonant,
I think about how best to represent it.
The answer to that de= pends on past usage in other languages and on our desire to take advantage = of
habit and familiarity to assist those learning lojban.
All the lan= guages with latin alphabets that I know of that use the h sound
also use= the h grapheme to represent it.
French lacks the sound so it uses the l= etter as a separator.
Spanish has only x which is written j.
Ancient = Greek used to have a rough breathing sound represented by
a left-side ar= c or the left half of capital HTA,
=C2=A0 while the apostrophe-looking m= ark represented the lack of an h at the start of a word.
Modern Greek ha= s no h sound, just a x.

The use of "h" for the unvoiced gl= ottal fricative seems like a slam dunk choice to me.

mihe la bremenl= i
<= br>

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