On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:20 PM, mudri
<jammyatjammy@gmail.com> wrote:
The 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.
I'm pretty sure it came about as a means of signalling that the enclosed text was in Lojban. There are some words, like {santa}, for instance, that are also words in English, and I'd bet other languages too, so "santa" isn't as clearly the Lojban word as {santa} is. As to why '{ }' in the first place, my guess is is that it's because '( )', '[ ]', and '< >' either already have a different use in English or doesn't look as 'cool'. (santa) [santa] <santa> {santa}.
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?
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Just 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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