From sentto-44114-17496-1038953441-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Tue Dec 03 21:46:02 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 03 Dec 2002 21:46:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from n1.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.64]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JSM6-0005Wa-01 for lojban-in@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 21:45:54 -0800 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-17496-1038953441-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.193] by n1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Dec 2002 22:10:42 -0000 X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 3 Dec 2002 22:10:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 47825 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2002 22:10:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Dec 2002 22:10:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2002 22:10:40 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18JLFY-0000rN-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:10:40 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JLFU-0000r5-00; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:10:36 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:10:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JLFP-0000qe-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:10:32 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC77B27223 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 00:09:59 +0200 (EET) Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp31.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.33]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CE52721A for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 00:09:58 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <3DED2D79.2090207@bilkent.edu.tr> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20021203122013.0785126c.rizen@surreality.us> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 X-archive-position: 2981 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 X-original-sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Robin Turner From: Robin Turner X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 00:17:29 +0200 Subject: [lojban] Re: ".i la lojban(.) mo" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 2997 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojban-out@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Theodore Reed wrote: > 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.) > Only if you're Jorge, perhaps ;-). Spaces in Lojban are only there for typographic reasons - they don't assume anything in terms of diction. IMHO, it's more permissible to omit spaces than to omit full stops. robin.tr -- "Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it." - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/