--Oh, so you're saying I'm over my head right? What kind of basic conventions?
Sent from my iPodBasically, so that it can be used in YACC. To appreciate that answer fully, you'd need to know some basic conventions used in context-free grammar notation.
On Saturday, 24 November 2012 00:30:33 UTC, Annie wrote:--Since it's not really a letter, why would you want to capitalize the apostrophe?
Sent from my iPodThe curly braces are quotes for Lojban text within text of other languages. I'm not quite sure why they're used, but it's a kind of standard.For upper case apostrophe, I'll give the example of the name of selma'o {KOhA} (again, braces are "quotes"). It is derrived from {ko'a}. So, as 'K' is capital 'k', 'h' is capital apostrophe.--
On Saturday, 24 November 2012 00:14:36 UTC, Annie wrote:Are you saying that left-brace is sort of a letter? What do you mean by upper apostrophe, or whatever?
Sent from my iPodJust to add something, 'h' is the upper case version of the apostrophe (both called {.y'y.}). This really only ever occurs in selma'o names, though it is very common in these.It is called a "half letter" sometimes for various reasons. Matt explained how it only appears between vowels, and is unique in this respect (commas, if I remember correctly, can be used next to syllabic consonants - but that's unimportant). The apostrophe also has no effect on morphology: CVV and CV'V syllables behave identically (other than having different meanings). Finally, it is counted almost literally as half a letter in the lujvo scoring algorithm. "Something that acts as half a letter", I suppose someone thought, "should have 'half' a glyph, pe'a".--
On Sunday, 18 November 2012 22:50:10 UTC, Annie wrote:I found out that in Lojban, there's apparently no h. How is that so, when the apostrophe is practically the h?
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