Received: from mail-lf0-f64.google.com ([209.85.215.64]:33413) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dP6KQ-0008U4-Of for lojban-list-archive@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:07:50 -0700 Received: by mail-lf0-f64.google.com with SMTP id h22sf8859830lfk.0 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:07:46 -0700 (PDT) ARC-Seal: i=2; a=rsa-sha256; t=1498392459; cv=pass; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=xyQbKdRG7oJW7Pkr52G9SSx1IRuPPbpNQWvWrzTHy+tGqSEh/FaeGByVPJn/DXSPrb rnU74zUZnYC80HLP+vxc5NNI1Tio28sWlg9tS90B/CmLRV2cnfN/YIRumtLuPwIANVBv fk3F88u6h1cO8UEccNia2J7o6J4fRBnAMQZvjpAyU1v1Ek38NBezX1Ibb28Y4E5cfHfB /D/dlVZ4Y1XubHzrmxH+2HrkRTjdO8AGS5TH5YYN0iA+EvOWtEc2n4Oy3YGuz408Xmnx 58rICN31Eu1mbMBM5TuababQP6WfljVzr+uUN0Fs59w32gjyd0G75XZTNERm/F8zABY/ cr9A== ARC-Message-Signature: i=2; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-help:list-post :list-id:mailing-list:precedence:reply-to:content-language :in-reply-to:mime-version:user-agent:date:message-id:from:references :to:subject:arc-authentication-results:arc-message-signature:sender :dkim-signature:dkim-signature:arc-authentication-results; bh=htrw3+P1J/2iF8nitjgmD8gXPd3AhenUfclLsq+ZwGg=; b=fLjl3Zt/WunMdqlmBzv9LzaiFlFuGnF6AheymPLBaE13foP5cCYdhzGlltfObpwvR/ Mq4sW240DYk0gUwXLFZnhYuiKNQc92apmRAE7PHHVMVuPOwns450Eq4Azmw+LOU6hPiF rV2YzjV8K8MOa73jjuxiAlZlUzcqHBPPubRZd7TmLe0nt7NFi+ipj+03Fl8APUHwKpBp bmcepWysqfR6vxIzK77UvchWEZixxlIA8Y1zZHEsVHKWDCZE/aCPDvnlc2RBkYxqMnFs GGb0mpIW8qi0KT7SbeGmnv4cvkGlcxveGDFN3bOhI1vdt/oJ2iK8h3Z1z6YBbByD8AJN 8tqw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=2; gmr-mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com header.b=ZoLUACoY; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c0c::231 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20161025; h=sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe; bh=htrw3+P1J/2iF8nitjgmD8gXPd3AhenUfclLsq+ZwGg=; b=j4pU7KnFFvIArPe7S+33oZ1dCwKVeRQhj/eq7OvNRorSbSKSS4ck69AVtnQ9heEgRm slUhsAnXnDtxFfx1JNTJSzA/2Tz6y24edZ7/jNef8iXyQKaxVSWYcOm3dQCJUvMfHWOL 4OamlRHkLD+ZkLMk8ebwznlQViilaGUQs8Uyu1h7tOuKi65r3k4Vbt+ivewoX1XC+nbq KN2srxslTw37pKlA8rec9/vLaS2jwtlqDCKWHmIi75bhJy74lsNvIhA4hxwyjzHBFiWe UrWiwxATnXTlTclkhtHVfa8LJYAe5bdxeGsZ2ilqNrLSI1UxZghfP2EFQ4QKfha6xrOM dbeA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe; bh=htrw3+P1J/2iF8nitjgmD8gXPd3AhenUfclLsq+ZwGg=; b=EhYhwBOvw0f6nROdzEuWcRJJEVxhtm4Pduw+DwMV/FbQympfetZtcEciQCtdKjzK7C D6wOIrQDeD3FxwCcLqYL9Gz+FkBYjvhC27xTE22I9jg1TCPNJ+8+F9L0bLqjJGonAJt7 D4EZ1qjBWvDWS5VnTJAKqHb70vnWmcsR/Dj9gQOcyka2wCb3UbmsbUzR8IWfR2Y8qY5N U3RVKj01Gz8rua7TVETPB3RD94RNGBUNvchE+eAND8jls2wVTlt9Teie3g3KhrfxhicG PXgshEFqooeNmEbcD3Cyi5/e9/1NHUwudmA55E4DOO08J2/yTpGQ1ZZYTpYjg0t6ejaq o/Qg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=sender:x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-spam-checked-in-group:list-post :list-help:list-archive:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe; bh=htrw3+P1J/2iF8nitjgmD8gXPd3AhenUfclLsq+ZwGg=; b=SWg/mBd3rDMS8XJ8mY5lnirjm0s6D5BTJ5PyguXRW9o6NfRtSmytpk04VZhvtIM2kP 7rPBWaFhbG/lwIDPW32xwYXJJhjqefVVa7m02bUcIDu1hkkXB01wDX0GYIR4eSgS4NcT 609SaMMlxcFYmxDD7E0pBgw0qlrqgltQHL3eyybwuKzeLtUsXtK0vXpyBIYEj22yiPlh pGe9l/6PCd6hVtZ08uGaePonw3xZPH8BH3Dr/n+NO5kHGC2q8hCJSOX3Gd5IiwNIjAJa LjDued0U+dBBOL8/Xj3qzIluN2ACxtilEKTHLxibKFiWNxgmu4bqnHBplgLGvj//oEUZ ApPg== Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Gm-Message-State: AKS2vOxqsH3NhdrioPPLoWOgPoATCFwOsCU8Szom63V6WW21aOSc4WZY FmgWyR1Z3Hr+LA== X-Received: by 10.46.0.37 with SMTP id 37mr50649lja.13.1498392459664; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:07:39 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.46.19.2 with SMTP id 2ls249159ljt.0.gmail; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:07:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.25.15.23 with SMTP id e23mr3047287lfi.15.1498392458620; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:07:38 -0700 (PDT) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1498392458; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=d7UQsAXV60nvjz0OJeY5vP7bPJBlR9BGG7KbEcgo2jMnLU7NuqrIZ1rDkjPbsaXV2U Gr5BopwGxEbXU4uqCMx3MjkeeAJO8xdhop7e76Za5TDtB8gO7MwmIQPVcJQpSiQ3MrPc u2iLVBnEtVE/X3pr1XkrbFs/BIgAzHPeHpjtdqGZWzPlsi7DLTQ0CGpvoRgwxuF+Qinv /bpsDo6YGcSoYWQ3aeDLlx3Dfa35gNjuadosMYd3X3iIhHzu4P/25QxEPwAda73zVwLM U9tCCjhONGAFVntdBGkMC2F8LZHLgA/g3PrkCoCmlEEgcyB3Pt7HGqRg97aIaJSWYfW+ oi4A== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=content-language:in-reply-to:mime-version:user-agent:date :message-id:from:references:to:subject:dkim-signature :arc-authentication-results; bh=Qkus7JCyztTgTAIl5Z9PM8fjZfNsrbA/+g3AZxXMWE0=; b=Pmn/t7SXUzhkVsX4eSGvKMYBj3vqHvIjD5Y+qz2AmfaR4HYOHw65JZS3GM35hkPsBE /N4Y9PDX8c/pSD1XtW6LWNI8ycKq/OTlaiD4B9cYlKWczJ7ZWfzpzC5UEWKilHaGUFge FpUvC5Uf7PntaBL++78b3FunXtMsxxZqKaVqpyVlGoU55Fdw6xPNGjHvIqq6UibVA8yC 5eEo2Q1z2TmZGV6YnrasKD+K6DA7vMSRIvRFCTRl6/XTebmzHK9oNV+e08AoeUr7XW6Q /B1sHPVEFsnX1N7ZvdWL4kazoNVdjGnJiC+mwsBd0H5G+B164wUS9gv4RWQ3+SHBqv3A ae6w== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; gmr-mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com header.b=ZoLUACoY; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c0c::231 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Received: from mail-wr0-x231.google.com (mail-wr0-x231.google.com. [2a00:1450:400c:c0c::231]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t16si2618548wmt.3.2017.06.25.05.07.38 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c0c::231 as permitted sender) client-ip=2a00:1450:400c:c0c::231; Received: by mail-wr0-x231.google.com with SMTP id r103so118931186wrb.0 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:07:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.28.142.144 with SMTP id q138mr10414958wmd.28.1498392457937; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.102] (95-210-221-70.ip.skylogicnet.com. [95.210.221.70]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id k17sm10306085wmg.9.2017.06.25.05.07.31 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [lojban] Apologia, using h instead of yhy To: lojban@googlegroups.com References: <02f60f56-9f52-4a1f-9c2f-5013407e6531@googlegroups.com> <7ceff0ea-c329-adbc-a0b8-ea02814c1c5e@gmail.com> From: Ilmen Message-ID: <58e8d8a4-23e7-3691-6435-1eec9273a4fb@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:07:24 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------2EAE7A8A4D271B1A9F546910" Content-Language: en-US X-Original-Sender: ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com header.b=ZoLUACoY; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c0c::231 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ilmen.pokebip@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: -4.6 (----) X-Spam_score: -4.6 X-Spam_score_int: -45 X-Spam_bar: ---- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------2EAE7A8A4D271B1A9F546910 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I personally have no problem with Lojban's =C2=AB'=C2=BB letter. Many langu= ages=20 written in the Latin alphabet uses the apostrophe as one of their=20 letters, standing for the glottal stop sound. I'm not either against the usage of =C2=ABh=C2=BB in stead of =C2=AB'=C2=BB= if people prefer=20 writing so. The javascript Camxes parsers have been allowing alternative=20 characters such as =C2=ABh=C2=BB, =C2=AB=CA=83=C2=BB, =C2=AB=CA=92=C2=BB an= d =C2=ABw=C2=BB since several years ago. The only disadvantage of having a diversity of charsets I can think of=20 is that it can make searching for pieces of Lojban text harder. On 24/06/2017 19:33, Remo Dentato wrote: > :) > > Actually, I meant: "what do you think of using h more and more instead=20 > of the current quote ' character?" > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Ilmen > wrote: > > > On 24/06/2017 18:50, Remo Dentato wrote: >> Now that you mention it, I fear that's the way I've always >> pronounced '. >> What would you suggest, Ilmen? > Hmm, keeping pronouncing it as [=C9=A6]? :-) > > >> >> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Ilmen > > wrote: >> >> The breathy-voiced glottal fricative [=C9=A6] >> has >> also been suggested (maybe even used unconsciously) as a >> possible realization of =E2=80=B9'=E2=80=BA. This sound exists i= n at least >> some dialects of English as an allophone of =E2=80=B9h=E2=80=BA = between >> vowels (as in "behind" for example). >> >> =E2=80=94Ilmen. >> >> >> On 24/06/2017 17:55, Remo Dentato wrote: >>> I agree that the initial idea was for ' to be replaceable by >>> other unvoiced fricative sound. Quoting literally CLL 3: >>> >>> ----- >>> >>> The apostrophe is included in Lojban only to enable a smooth >>> transition between vowels, while joining the vowels within a >>> single word. In fact, one way to think of the apostrophe is >>> as representing an unvoiced vowel glide. >>> >>> As a permitted variant, any unvoiced fricative other than >>> those already used in Lojban may be used to render the >>> apostrophe: IPA [=CE=B8] is one possibility. The convenience of >>> the listener should be regarded as paramount in deciding to >>> use a substitute for [h]. >>> >>> ----- >>> >>> I wonder, however, how many lojbanists nowadays would >>> recognize a ' pronounced as =CE=B8 rather than h . If, as CLL >>> says, the convenience of the listner should be the first >>> priority, then having ' fixed as h might be a good solution. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:53 PM, uakci >> > wrote: >>> >>> 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 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 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 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 ways of >>> separating words or syllables, >>> 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 quicksilver. >>> 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 all 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 sound >>> 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 >>> >>> --=20 >>> 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. >>> 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. >>> 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. >>> 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. >> 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. >> 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. > 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=20 > Groups "lojban" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send=20 > an email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com=20 > . > To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com=20 > . > 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail 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. --------------2EAE7A8A4D271B1A9F546910 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I personally have no problem with Lojban's =C2=AB'=C2=BB letter. Man= y languages written in the Latin alphabet uses the apostrophe as one of their letters, standing for the glottal stop sound.

I'm not either against the usage of =C2=ABh=C2=BB in stead of =C2=AB= '=C2=BB if people prefer writing so. The javascript Camxes parsers have been allowing alternative characters such as =C2=ABh=C2=BB, =C2=AB=CA=83= =C2=BB, =C2=AB=CA=92=C2=BB and =C2=ABw=C2=BB since several years ago.

The only disadvantage of having a diversity of charsets I can think of is that it can make searching for pieces of Lojban text harder.

On 24/06/2017 19:33, Remo Dentato wrote:
:)

Actually, I meant: "what do you think of using h more and more instead of the current quote ' character?"

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Ilmen <ilmen.pokebip@gmai= l.com> wrote:
On 24/06/2017 18:50, Remo Dentato wrote:
Now that you mention it, I fear that's the way I've always pronounced '.
What would you suggest, Ilmen?
 Hmm, keeping pronouncing it as [=C9=A6]? :-)



On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Ilmen <ilme= n.pokebip@gmail.com> wrote:

= The breathy-voiced glottal fricative [=C9=A6] has also been suggested (maybe even used unconsciously) as a possible realization of =E2=80=B9'=E2=80=BA. This sound exists in = at least some dialects of English as an allophone of =E2=80= =B9h=E2=80=BA between vowels (as in "behind" for example).

=E2=80=94Ilmen.

On 24/06/2017 17:55, Remo Dentato wrote:
I agree that the initial idea was for ' to be replaceable by other unvoiced fricative sound. Quoting literally CLL 3:

-----

The apostrophe is included in Lojban only to enable a smooth transition between vowels, while joining the vowels within a single word. In fact, one way to think of the apostrophe is as representing an unvoiced vowel glide.

As a permitted variant, any unvoiced fricative other than those already used in Lojban may be used to render the apostrophe: IPA [=CE=B8] is one possibility. The convenience of the listener should be regarded as paramount in deciding to use a substitute for [h].

-----

I wonder, however, how many lojbanists nowadays would recognize a ' pronounced as =CE=B8 rather than h . If, as CLL says, the convenience of the listner should be the first priority, then having ' fixed as=C2=A0 h=C2= =A0 might be a good solution.




On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:53 PM, uakci <ciuak.pr= og@gmail.com> wrote:
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 <h> 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 <h> would mess things up.)


=E2=80=94mi'e la rupnu be li pi n= o ci be'o se ju la uakci

20= 17-06-24 11:18 GMT+02:00 Remo Dentato &= lt;rdentato@gmail.com>:
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.=C2=A0 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 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 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:

=C2=A0=C2=A0 hann= o -> 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


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, <<= a href=3D"mailto:vpbroman@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank" moz-do-not-send=3D"tru= e">vpbroman@gmail.com> 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 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 ways of separating words or syllables,
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
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0 The letter "h" 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 apostrophe =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 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
=C2=A09181 b
=C2=A08832 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.

Even the measured time it takes to pronounce h, 77-109 msec for me,
similar in published results for other languages, is not like quicksilver.
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 all 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 sound
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,
=C2=A0 while the apostrophe-lookin= g 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 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.

--
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.

--
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 lojb= an+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to lojb= an@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http= s://groups.google.com/group/lojban.
For more options, visit http= s://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+unsubsc= ribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googleg= roups.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.

--
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+uns= ubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@goo= glegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://gr= oups.google.com/group/lojban.
For more options, visit https://gr= oups.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+unsubsc= ribe@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 lo= jban@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 &= quot;lojban" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to lojban+unsub= scribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http= s://groups.google.com/group/lojban.
For more options, visit http= s://groups.google.com/d/optout.
--------------2EAE7A8A4D271B1A9F546910--