At 03:58 PM 5/14/03 -0700, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
la camgusmis cusku di'e > I mean, seriously. The language adds, what, 23 symbols?, just to > represent syllabic stress. It's ridiculous. I only use five: A, E, I, O and U.
I find your approach acceptable. I don't much like a separate character like exclamation point. One character, one sound is the current standard, and no sort of extraneous punctuation that is not a representation of a sound has caught on for Lojban (assuming that the close-comma is defined as a glide).
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