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Subject:      Re: h for apostrophe
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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> I had to actually try Write to verify what you said (it could have been an
> artifact of a European version, but you are correct.  Lousy design, since
> apostrophes in English occur in contractions and possessives and the pieces
> without the contraction aren't considered whole words (i.e. in the last
> sentence "aren" should not be considered a whole word).  I would call this
> a "feature" of Write, and not one of the language that uses apostrophes.
Yes, but just as my nonconformity to lojban conventions excludes me from
things like using the parser, so lojbanAs nonconformity to major panlinguistic
orthographic conventions gives it hassle with various bits of software.
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