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Re: [lojban] la .alis.
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Jorge Llambías wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Michael Everson
<michael.everson@gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 Mar 2010, at 18:25, Jorge Llambías wrote:
Also, I notice that some cmavo are written without a space between them, whereas today I would write the space.
Not a big deal, but you may want to adjust that.
I am by no means competent to identify them or make this change, but if you make a list I can do so for you.
I think you will probably need some help from someone who can identify
such things if you want the punctuation to look right, whether you go
with casing or not. I would be happy to help you with the revision.
The separation should be easily automated. Any "word" that has no
consonant clusters is really a string of cmavo. Each consonant begins
a new cmavo.
Incidentally, I've been wondering for some time how clusters would look
separated by a thin space, insetad of just a normal space. It seems like it
could be a good compromise, indicating a semantic grouping, but still making
it very easy to split out where individual words begin and end.
Spaces between cmavo have always been optional, and the custom has varied with time, with the tendency being towards preferring the spaced out forms.
¿Por exemplo?
"icabo" is "i ca bo", but you don't have it capitalized presumably
because you didn't recognize it as a sentence separator. Similarly
"ijenaiji'a" is "i je nai ji'a".
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