From grey.havens@earthling.net Mon Jun 26 18:24:16 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12766 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2000 01:24:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Jun 2000 01:24:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO postfix1.free.fr) (212.27.32.21) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Jun 2000 01:24:12 -0000 Received: from tam.n (marseille2-2-63-30.dial.proxad.net [212.27.63.30]) by postfix1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0271728039 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 03:24:11 +0200 (MEST) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 03:23:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: elrond@tam.n To: Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] Names of characters In-Reply-To: <0006261922130D.01794@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Elrond X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 3260 > " - lubu won't "lubu" be parsed as "lu bu" (and probably make the following ungrammatical) ? The jbofi'e goes crazy with the even bridi "zo lubu cu valsi". > $ - rupnu bu this clashes with the "Yen" and "Cent" and "Euro" symbols why not meryru'u bu ? and ponru'ubu and ronru'ubu for others ? > ( - tobu > ) - toibu same as "lubu" ? > @ - abubu (?) I never thought that "@" had anything to do with "a"... At least not in the phonological sense... I may be wrong, but isn't there more obvious meaning of the "@" that could be used for its name ? co'o mi'e rafael