On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Annie <park.annie@asb.gaggle.net> wrote:

Oh OK. I have another question. I know that when you= say a Lojban vowel, you add "bu" after it, but what do you say a= fter a consonant?

Lojban consonants ar= e the letteral followed by "y.": by. cy. dy. fy. etc.
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On Nov 21, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Mic= hael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

=A0 No, not perio= ds in the middle of words. =A0You've seen commas ("slaka bu" = in lojban), which are syllable breaks to, for example, di-dipthongize vowel= clusters that appear in a name. =A0For example, lo,is is "LOH-is"= ; as opposed to "lois" which rhymes with the Englice "choice= "
=A0 =A0 =A0--gejyspa

On Wed, N= ov 21, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Annie <park.annie@asb.gaggle.net> wrote:

All that makes since,= the full stop separating one word from a word that begins a vowel and all.= However, I've seen it in the middle of words before. What's that f= or?

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On Nov 20, 2012, at 6:38 PM, = Ross Ogilvie <ross@rossogilvie.id.au> wrote:

A full stop in lojban represents a pause in speech. You need to pause = in speech to show that the next word begins with a vowel, or that you have = finished saying a name.

English uses a full stop to separate sentenc= es. The way to separate sentences in lojban is to use the word "i"= ;. Because it's a word beginning with a vowel, it is normally written w= ith a full stop before it. eg

ti mlatu .i ta gerku
This is a cat. That is a dog

But it is t= he word "i", not the full stop that is separating the sentences.<= br>
The word in lojban for the full stop is "denpabu", ie &quo= t;the pause letter"

-- Ross

On 21 November 2012 11:09, An= nie <park.annie@asb.gaggle.net> wrote:
It seems like there's a lot of periods, fullstops in Lojban. Why would = you want to put them either at the beginning or in the middle of a word?
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