From rizen@surreality.us Tue Dec 03 12:20:24 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 03 Dec 2002 12:20:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ispwest.com ([216.52.245.18] helo=ispwestemail1.aceweb.net) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JJWk-00006b-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 12:20:18 -0800 Received: from surreality.us (unverified [4.47.240.153]) by ispwestemail1.aceweb.net (Vircom SMTPRS 1.4.232) with SMTP id for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:23:23 -0800 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:20:13 -0800 From: Theodore Reed To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: ".i la lojban(.) mo" Message-Id: <20021203122013.0785126c.rizen@surreality.us> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.cs8U?h7I6GfF3P" X-archive-position: 2978 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rizen@surreality.us Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --=.cs8U?h7I6GfF3P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:18:45 +0000 And Rosta wrote: > Why ".i la lojban mo" and not ".i la lojban. mo" (with fullstop > after "lojban"? > > --And. I suppose because the space already assumes a pause? (Without knowing the context, this is the best I can do.) -- Theodore Reed (rizen/bancus) -==- http://www.surreality.us/ ~OpenPGP Signed/Encrypted Mail Preferred; Finger me for my public key!~ "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in an argument." -- Robert Frost --=.cs8U?h7I6GfF3P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE97RH+w24JwM4aDNwRAisQAKC7DoOmOvyP8w1g+bXj+IKCM24FmACfQu4b mhe8td9udLR47Imd4NbmCqo= =Pf4d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.cs8U?h7I6GfF3P--