[lojban-beginners] Re: Reasoning for the apostrophe (Was Re: Re: proper pronunciation of apostrophe)

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 20 pi'e 08 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Joshua Choi .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> Yes, but it refers to Chapter 4, which doesn't explicitly explain the  
> reasoning. Whenever it mentions apostrophes, it's in something like "not 
> including the apostrophe" or "not counting the apostrophe". I'm only 
> guessing, but it sort of seems like the reasoning that "h" is represented 
> by the apostrophe is to emphasize that it doesn't count as a letter in a 
> lot of morphological rules. Is this right?
.skamyxatra

Yes, that's essentially what the quoted passage says.  Using a letter of the
Latin alphabet in a system in which it virtually isn't a letter, despite being
surrounded by other Latin letters which are treated as full letters, was
expected to be potentially too confusing.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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