Re: 'I say your name as ...'

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Jorge J. Llambías wrote:

> One problem might be that, at least in Lojban, linguistic forms and
> their phonetic realizations (or "expressions" and "utterances") are
> referred to by the same objects. You can say {mi ciska zoi gy foo gy}
> or {mi bacru zoi gy foo gy} and {zoi gy foo gy} is in one case referring
> to a linguistic form and in the other case to a phonetic realization,
> isn't it?

Probably. But that doesn't mean that the lujvo "ba'usku", namely
"b1=c1 phonetically expresses text c2 for audience c3
using utterance/medium b2=c4" doesn't deserve to exist; it may not be
useful for expressing the relations between *Lojban* sounds and
texts, but it is useful for talking about other langs in Lojban.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan	cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
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