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

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

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:58:44PM -0400, Kevin Reid wrote:
> 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".

Oh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0

-Robin

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