Re: [lojban-beginners] [a] vs [æ]

[Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com>]

Annie, that's why UEB is very, very useful.

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On 24 Nov 2012, at 5:26 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.

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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:
> 
>> 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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