Re: Massive irony (Everson, please read) (was Re: [lojban] BPFK Announcement: Orthography)

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

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:20:29AM +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
> On 7 Apr 2010, at 07:00, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> > So, ironically, working on this made me much more receptive to
> > Everson's plans.
> > 
> > I *still* think ". I" looks like cat barf, but I think that's
> > just me being conservative, so I'm going to be less of a dick
> > about it.
> 
> Remember, in the "standard typography" version "." and "I" are
> unrelated. The glottal/pause is inherent in initial vowels and
> words following "la"; the full stop is just the sentence-ending
> blort.

No, it isn't; the "." is there *because of the "i".  They are,
conceptually, directly attached to each other, so they should be
visually attached too.  If there was no "i", there would be no ".".

Lojban does not require a full stop (if that's linguistically
different than a pause, which it seems to be?) anywhere, including
at the end of sentences.

-Robin

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