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

[Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>]

That was not my understanding at all--I thought that, like English,
all vowel-initial words in Lojban are required to start with a glottal
stop, but, because it is predictable, it isn't required to be written.
 Is that not the case?

Chris

On Wednesday, April 7, 2010, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 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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