Re: [lojban-beginners] [a] vs [æ]

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Annie <park.annie@asb.gaggle.net> wrote:

Well see, I have an IPod and Refreshabraille. That's the braille display. I actually have speech off, and the actual words "left brace" or "right brace" come up. That's why I have trouble knowing if that's the symbols or the words.

Except when we're also talking about them, which we've never done before now, it's always the symbol.

I didn't know braille didn't have a configuration for the symbol itself. I find it odd that it actually spells it out to you.

In any case, on these boards, at least, if you see text like:

left brace mi nelci lo plise right brace,

just remember that everything between "left brace" and "right brace" is the Lojban we are talking about.
 

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On Nov 24, 2012, at 5:19 PM, Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org> wrote:

> On Nov 24, 2012, at 14:55, Annie wrote:
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>> Then what's all that stuff about left-brace meaning "is similar to"?
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> From the footer on your messages which says “This Email was sent by a student at School for the Blind”, I guess that you might be using a text-to-speech system. Perhaps it speaks the words “left brace” or “right brace” when it encounters a brace symbol, such as these: { }.
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> Those symbols are being used to quote actual Lojban words, like this: {simsa}. That was the Lojban word “simsa”, in braces; the word means something like “is similar to”.
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