[lojban-beginners] Re: Holoalphabetic sentence?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 9/22/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> A "holoalphabetic sentence" is one that uses all the letters
> of the alphabet.

I knew them as "pangrams".

> So: What can be done in Lojban?

There's

   .o'i mu xagji sofybakni cu zvati le purdi

> I would say that dot and comma don't count as alphabetic.

I would say the comma certainly doesn't and the dot certainly does.
The comma doesn't change the meaning of any word. The dot
(glottal stop) is like any other consonant except it can't appear
in the middle of a word. In fact it is the counterpart of the apostrophe,
which can only appear in the middle of words. They could be considered
alophones.

> Has this been done before? If not, let's do it now.

It's been done, but shorter ones are possible using longer lujvo.

> By the way, I think real palindromes are impossible in Lojban
> sentences.

.o'u mi jdedji mu'o

mi'e xorxes