From rpb@PANIX.COM Ukn Jul 29 23:22:49 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 29 Jul 1993 23:22:47 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1118; Thu, 29 Jul 93 23:21:35 EDT Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@YALEVM) by YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 5852; Thu, 29 Jul 1993 23:21:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 23:21:34 -0400 Reply-To: Rob Brady Sender: Lojban list From: Rob Brady Subject: h vs ' X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: Message-ID: <-55SxksMc1P.A.PR.F10kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org> I'd like to make it clear that the "''" problem is not a "bug" in unix. The problem is that unix was written in New Jersey, where they speak English. English speaking cultures (and most others) have this concept calLed alphanumeric . Lojban apparently has no such concept. I don't mean to sound snide (above) but what is the reason for not using an alphabetic character for the ' sound (or lack thereof). Since you have already defined a phonology different from English why isn't is possible to say that "h" is either the sound usually spoken as "h" in english, or simply no sound (or whatever the proper definition is). It would certainly make many things (not just unix) in the computer world easier, such as every programming language I've ever used. -- Rob Brady rpb@panix.com Sin mar a bhfuil an sce'al