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

[Kevin Reid <kpreid@mac.com>]

On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:37, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> > 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.


I think by "standard typography" Everson meant "standard Latin" not  
"standard Lojban".

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>




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