Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:41:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D5Kvk-0000Iy-7V for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:41:40 -0800 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:41:40 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: .eosai ko viska le ckule jibri be mi Message-ID: <20050227094140.GE26916@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <421EA747.80406@gulik.co.nz> <537d06d0050225032046d7f713@mail.gmail.com> <421F8831.5060601@gulik.co.nz> <422083BE.3030806@happyvalley.eclipse.co.uk> <42214DAC.8070307@gulik.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42214DAC.8070307@gulik.co.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1178 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 609 On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:33:48PM +1300, Michael van der Gulik wrote: > BTW, is it permissable and/or correct to use punctuation and > numerals? E.g. > > {lu'o 3 lo gerku cu batci mi} A lot of people do that. > {mi cusku "hello"} > > rather than the typographically verbose: > > {mi cusku zoi .glic hello .glic} You can do that if you want to, but I don't think I'd like it very much. Personally. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/