[lojban-beginners] Re: My Intro...with a request for help as a bonus.

["Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

On 9/27/07, Marjorie Scherf <mls1@rice.edu> wrote:
> Eppcott,
> How can you type {wybu} in lojban if there is no 'w'?
> mu'omi'e .skaryzgik.
>

We don't. Lojban does not use the 'w' character of the keyboard.
{wybu} is a Lojban way to talk about a glyph that exists in langauges
other than Lojban, just like talking about Greek or Cyrillic glyphs.

The only glyphs of of Lojban are:

abcdefg  ijklmnop  rstuv xyz '

No 'h', 'q', or 'w'.

The sound like English 'w' happens in Lojban when the 'u' character
(pronounced 'oo') is connected to another vowel in one of these
configurations: ua ue ui uo uu iu au (wah, wheh, wee, whoah, woo, you,
ow)

By the way, the only time the English sound of the character 'y' is
used in Lojban works the same way. ia ie ii io iu ei ai oi ui (yah,
yeh, yee, yoe, you, A, eye, oy, wee). The 'y' glyph is not used for
this in Lojban. In Lojban that letter makes an 'uh' sound.

-Eppcott