[lojban-beginners] Re: Syllable in place of pause

[robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

melissa@fastanimals.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My husband and I just started studying Lojban.  Because we are nerdy and 
> obsessive, we're thinking ahead to the day when Lojban is the interlingua 
> and Lojban speakers rule the world.  
>
> We figure the pauses will be the first thing to go, in a community of true
> Lojban speakers.  People just aren't going to do that in real life;  
> they'll rely on context to make it clear.  But although this is
> inevitable, it is also anethema to the Lojban philosophy.
>
> We looked briefly at Loglan before settling on Lojban.  We encountered 
> references to Loglan speakers who use the syllable "gu" (apparently 
> otherwise unassigned) in place of mandatory pauses.
>
> Is there a similar convention among Lojban speakers?
>
> ObLojban:  .a'u.a'o
Not that I know of. I think you're right about pauses being largely 
dropped in conversation (or maybe the glottal stop will catch on). The 
same thing applies in natural languages. Someone from my native 
Shropshire will easily realise that "Oyinnergunner" means "I am not 
going to."

robin.tr


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Robin Turner
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Bilkent Univeritesi
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