From lojban-out@lojban.org Fri Apr 30 16:50:33 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 77868 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2004 23:50:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m16.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Apr 2004 23:50:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2004 23:50:33 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BJhm3-0006in-Hu for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:50:31 -0700 Received: from dsl081-049-134.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.49.134] helo=chain.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.31) id 1BJhlP-0006UX-D8; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:49:51 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BJhlE-0006N3-2W for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:49:40 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:49:40 -0700 Message-ID: <20040430234940.GF14939@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040430224308.GD14939@digitalkingdom.org> <20040430234418.78701.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040430234418.78701.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-archive-position: 7604 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22074 On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:44:18PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:40:01PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > > > > Capitalizing the whole syllable doesn't look very nice anyway, > > > > In your opinion. > > In my opinion it looks horrible. I wonder if anyone really thinks it > looks very nice. I strongly prefer it over capitalizing only the vowel, as I've stated in the past. > > > and there are no fixed rules in Lojban for syllable break-up. > > > > There aren't? > > Are there? I have no idea; I don't much understand syllabification in general. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi