On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Jones <
eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree with the stability bit, but I don't agree that Lojban as written in
> the standard convention is impenetrable.
>
> A bit difficult at first, and more so with Jorge's consistent lack of
> denpabu, but not impenetrable.
period when it represents a glottal stop in front of a vowel. The
reason for my change of approach was that working on the morphology
convinced me that it is more elegant to take the period there as
representing a full consonant, as opposed to the more wishy-washy
consonanthood it has as the cmevla delimiter.
> (I would like to state that in my own
> experience, the difficulties I had when first reading Lojban have since been
> reversed- that is, what once difficult to read due to lack of that which I
> am used to seeing in English text is now difficult if those elements *are*
> there- with the exception of white space, and not counting my difficulty in
> reading {lonu lojbo bacru cu na ponse lo denpabu} ("Lojban without the
> {.}").)
Do you really mean to use "denpabu" as a fu'ivla?
jbofi'e craps out on that sentence using
{denpa bu}, but returns fine using
{denpabu}, although it returns dy. as "??". Also, "A" is, in my experience, usually written as {.abu}, not {.a bu}, so it makes sense to me to write "." without he space as well. As long as readers know what I'm intending, that's the important bit, right?
Ah, I hadn't realized that. I thought I did need the {lo}. That must be why jbofi'e crapped out-- yep, that's the reason, although I find it interesting that jbofi'e corrects {denpa bu} to
{denpa.bu}.