From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Apr 30 15:43:14 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BJgiq-0005Vb-Il for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:43:08 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:43:08 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea. Message-ID: <20040430224308.GD14939@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040430222316.GC14939@digitalkingdom.org> <20040430224001.58073.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040430224001.58073.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7601 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:40:01PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > Some people use capital letters in Lojban to represent letterals, > > similar to English acronyms. > > > > I just realized what the problem is with this: it introduces > > ambiguity, because capital letters can be used in names. > > The two conventions are not compatible, no, One of them isn't a convention, it's part of the language definition. > but if you use them in names only for the accented vowel then there > shouldn't be any conflict. That's nice. > Capitalizing the whole syllable doesn't look very nice anyway, In your opinion. > and there are no fixed rules in Lojban for syllable break-up. There aren't? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi