[lojban-beginners] Re: apostrophes?

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:50:24 -0500, Andrew Archibald
<archibal@math.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> miklamalezarci .idocadzulebisli
> 
> is perfectly valid unambiguous lojban.

You sure? vlatai turns that into "mi klamalezarci .i do ca
dzulebisli", though what the type-4 fu'ivla "klamalezarci" and
"dzulebisli" mean is anyone's guess.

I think you need to mark either word boundaries or stress (".a", not
".onai"), otherwise stress is on the penult by default and you get
fu'ivla.

miklAmalezArci.idocAdzulebIsli

on the other hand, might work (without even the space in the middle!
since you have the dot there).

> It's not usual to write it
> this way, but certain other gluings are more common (e.g. {pukiku}).

or {lenu}/{calenu} or, famously, {ganai} (which people are
occasionally tempted to treat as a word, e.g. by quoting it with {zo},
because they learned it as one unit).

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>