Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Question

[selpa'i <m3o@plasmatix.com>]

There seems to be some confusion here about the apostrophe and capital 
letters in Lojban.

Lojban does not use capital letters unless when you wish to mark a 
stressed syllable, which is are written using capital letters. It's also 
legal to only capitalize the vowel of that syllable.

For example, dunda might be written DUNda or dUnda, but this is not 
required. (There are also some other systems in use, like placing 
accents above the vowel instead)

Secondly, we've established already that instead of an h, Lojban uses 
the apostrophe for reasons that have been given already. When writing 
parsers for Lojban, in the program/code, you need to use names 
internally that don't interfere with the syntax of the programming 
language. Usually, apostrophes can't be used, so in this case, and 
really only in this case, the apostrophe is replaced by an actual h. You 
will never see this is actual Lojban text, so you don't even need to 
worry about it.

h is the capitalized version of ' simply because ' denotes an h sound, 
and so "h" is the most obvious choice for a capital version of this letter.

"mi'e la selpa'i" would be capitalized as "MIhE LA SELPAhI", in theory, 
but again, this is not something that you need to do. It's just simply a 
fact that ' and h are the lower and upper case versions of the same 
letter. Many also prefer to keep the apostrophe even in words that are 
entirely capitalized: "MI'E LA SELPA'I".

mi'e la selpa'i mu'o

--
doị mèlbi mlenì'u
   .i do càtlu ki'u
ma fe la xàmpre ŭu
   .i do tìnsa càrmi
gi'e sìrji se tàrmi
   .i taị bo pu cìtka lo gràna ku


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