[lojban-beginners] Re: Period

[Naomi K <alien.juxtaposition@gmail.com>]

So does ".y." necessarily have to be a short sound? I'm pretty used to having a drawn out "Uhhh..." when I hesistate.

mu'o mi'e nei,omis

On 10/17/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:34:23PM +1000, Naomi K wrote:
> Is it allowable to use the lojban period to the same purpose as an
> English comma (show pauses for the reader)?

In fact, that is the only thing that a Lojban period *can* indicate:
it means "pause here".

However, it really shouldn't be used for hesitation pauses (that's
.y.) or to group clauses (that's not done with pausing in Lojban).

-Robin

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