Re: [lojban] Re: "la" in names

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:00:25PM -0800, Timothy Hobbs wrote:
> Robin. just a note. though mandatory pauses do not cause problems,
> I do not think... rules based on pauses are bad.  about 1.5% of
> people, stutter. you would not want to make them unable to speak
> due to the inability to not pause :)

Sorry, but that horse is *way* out of the barn.

There are only 3 places that you can say a name without a pause in
front of it: after la, lai, and doi, and then *only* if the name
begins with a consonant.  Even then, you have to have a pause
afterwands.

In all of the following cases, the pause is required:

la .alis.

doi .alis.

lai .alis.

coi .bab.

mi'e .bab.

ki'e .bab.

pe'u .bab.

[insert remaining COI members here]

Under the current rule, the pause before the name is not required in
these three cases, and only these three:

la bab.

doi bab.

lai bab.

People *already* get this wrong all over the place, by not putting
the pause in between COI and a cmene; by making the pauses required
on both sides of all cmene it would increases regularity, decrease
exceptions, and decrease the amount of cognitive overhead required
to speak the language.

-Robin