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On 11/18/05, sunnan@handgranat.org <sunnan@handgranat.org> wrote:
> I didn't know that brivla could be names, I thought names had to end with
> with a consonant.

cmevla have to end with a consonant, but {la} can take a cmevla
or a brivla.

> jbofi'e parses that totally weirdly; it thinks I'm saying:
> la / / pa /1/ cruxydinju /??-building(s)??/)]
>
> I do like the idea, but do I need to do something special for brivla to
> work as names?

Oops, that's right, because {pacruxydinju} is not a lujvo.
It has to be {pacyruxydinju} or {pacyruxydi'u}.

> That's ghastly, what ever happened to written/spoken isomorphy?

It never really existed.

> I've also seen digits [0-9] in some wikipedia articles. It should be no,
> so and so on! This was one of the main lures of lojban for me.

The advantage of a completely phonetic spelling is that you always
know how to pronounce what you see, and you always know how
to write what you hear. That's not broken by allowing {re} and {2} to
stand for the same word, or {P} and {py} ro stand for the same word.
In many contexts "2" and "P" are much easier to read.

> > I prefer big-endian too. The grammar allows both (and many other)
> > conventions. It is always possible to be unambiguous with either
> > convention, so everyone can (will) use whatever they like most.
>
> How do I do it?

For example {li pasobibi} can only be a year.

mu'o mi'e xorxes