From sentto-44114-22107-1083411092-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Sat May 01 04:32:16 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 01 May 2004 04:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from n44.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.67.19]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.31) id 1BJsiw-00018R-VP for lojban-in@lojban.org; Sat, 01 May 2004 04:32:03 -0700 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-22107-1083411092-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.29] by n44.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 May 2004 11:31:32 -0000 X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 32866 invoked from network); 1 May 2004 11:31:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m23.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 May 2004 11:31:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakermmtao06.cox.net) (68.230.240.33) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 May 2004 11:31:30 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org ([68.228.12.146]) by lakermmtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20040501113128.QTWB19374.lakermmtao06.cox.net@bob.lojban.org> for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 07:31:28 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20040501072608.03410020@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: lojbab@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <20040430234418.78701.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040430224308.GD14939@digitalkingdom.org> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 68.230.240.33 From: Bob LeChevalier X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab 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: Sat, 01 May 2004 07:31:28 -0400 Subject: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 7615 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list At 04:44 PM 4/30/04 -0700, Jorge "Llambías" wrote: >--- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:40:01PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > > > > Capitalizing the whole syllable doesn't look very nice anyway, > > > > In your opinion. > >In my opinion it looks horrible. I wonder if anyone really thinks >it looks very nice. You should be able to guess that I adopted the practice because I thought it looks nice. I prefer it to the two alternate methods I've seen for showing stress (an accent mark before - or after - the syllable in question, and capitalizing only the vowel, which looks to me like someone doing word-art, and I sometimes don't notice the capitalization) > > > and there are no fixed rules in Lojban for syllable break-up. > > > > There aren't? > >Are there? I believe we specified rules back in the original morphology paper (which predates Lojban, being a modified version of a paper about TLI Loglan), but I don't know if they made it into the red book. lojbab lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group (Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.) Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/GSaulB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: lojban-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/