From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Fri Sep 26 08:42:44 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 71209 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2003 15:42:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Sep 2003 15:42:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web41902.mail.yahoo.com) (66.218.93.153) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 2003 15:42:43 -0000 Message-ID: <20030926154243.97793.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web41902.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:42:43 PDT Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: volcano To: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <20030926133117.GB5606@vicerveza.menta.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Jorge "Llambías" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=142311107 X-Yahoo-Profile: jjllambias2000 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20779 (This was sent to me, but I think was meant for the list.) --- Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to know why almost anyone in the list uses dots in their lojban > texts. > Why? > > And.. I'd like to know how the 'dot' is named in lojban. :) > > Thanks! I don't know why most people prefer to use the dots, probably because most people use them. The usual answer for the name of the dot is {denpa bu}. However, {denpa bu} is not a name, it is a lerfu. Lerfu are used in lojban as pronouns. To talk about the dot, we could say {lo galxyfanta lerfu}, "the glottal-stop letter". mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com