Re: [lojban-beginners] [a] vs [æ]

[Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org>]

On Nov 24, 2012, at 14:55, Annie wrote:

> Then what's all that stuff about left-brace meaning "is similar to"?

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: { }.

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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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>

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