Re: [lojban-beginners] Fullstop

Well, a minor detail: {me'o denpa bu} refers to the actual symbol, but in the common IRC parlance, there're a few ways to actually refer to the concept of the "pause" (which isn't actually necessarily a pause; the glottal stop is just a sound like any other, but it has the alternative of being substituted for by silence). Among others, there's {lo me denpa bu} which has the obvious issue of {denpa bu} referring to something ('cause letterals can be pronouns). {lo me la'e me'o denpa bu} but that's just too verbose for anyone to ever say. That being said, the way that I advocate, which is also advocated by some others, is {lo depybu'i} which makes surprising use of {bu}'s rafsi, -bu'i-.

.i mi'e la tsani mu'o

On 20 November 2012 16:38, 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 sentences. 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 with a full stop before it. eg

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

But it is the word "i", not the full stop that is separating the sentences.

The word in lojban for the full stop is "denpabu", ie "the pause letter"

-- Ross

On 21 November 2012 11:09, Annie <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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