From phma@webjockey.net Fri Sep 26 15:00:10 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 71553 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2003 22:00:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Sep 2003 22:00:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 2003 22:00:08 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CFF6C3506; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:59:45 -0400 (EDT) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: dot was volcano Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:59:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030926154243.97793.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030926154243.97793.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309261759.45056.phma@webjockey.net> From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20782 On Friday 26 September 2003 11:42, Jorge "Llamb=EDas" wrote: > 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". For "this is a dot" I say {ti me me'o denpa bu}. There is also a word=20 {depybu'i}, but whether that means the same as {me me'o denpa bu} I don't=20 know. phma