[lojban-beginners] Syllable in place of pause

[melissa@fastanimals.com]

Hi all,

My husband and I just started studying Lojban.  Because we are nerdy and 
obsessive, we're thinking ahead to the day when Lojban is the interlingua 
and Lojban speakers rule the world.  

We figure the pauses will be the first thing to go, in a community of true
Lojban speakers.  People just aren't going to do that in real life;  
they'll rely on context to make it clear.  But although this is
inevitable, it is also anethema to the Lojban philosophy.

We looked briefly at Loglan before settling on Lojban.  We encountered 
references to Loglan speakers who use the syllable "gu" (apparently 
otherwise unassigned) in place of mandatory pauses.

Is there a similar convention among Lojban speakers?

ObLojban:  .a'u.a'o

-- 
Melissa H.
Dogmom to Deena the wonder dog
Mother to Nicholas, born 11/24/2002