Re: [lojban-beginners] Fullstop

No, not periods in the middle of words. You've seen commas ("slaka bu" in lojban), which are syllable breaks to, for example, di-dipthongize vowel clusters that appear in a name. For example, lo,is is "LOH-is" as opposed to "lois" which rhymes with the Englice "choice"

--gejyspa

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Annie <park.annie@asb.gaggle.net> wrote:

All that makes since, the full stop separating one word from a word that begins a vowel and all. However, I've seen it in the middle of words before. What's that for?

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On Nov 20, 2012, at 6:38 PM, 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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