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Re: [lojban] la .alis.
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 11:54:35 Michael Everson wrote:
> On 31 Mar 2010, at 16:31, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > "merián" is two syllables. "merían" I think would be three, but I don't
> > think anyone's written the rule precisely. "meriián" is three syllables,
> > but it's "Mary Yan", not "Mary Ann". I'd go with "la Meri,án".
>
> What if anything is the hyphen used for, viz. "la Meri-án"?
It isn't, although I've proposed using it for abbreviations, and in casual
writing some people put a hyphen at the beginning of a foreign word instead
of writing out "[me] la'o gy. ... .gy.".
Pierre
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