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

[Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>]

On 7 Apr 2010, at 17:37, 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".

Not in standard Latin typography. My source Lojban text has no dots at all... so my Latin-typeset version remains undotted in terms of marking the pause. 

> They are, conceptually, directly attached to each other, so they should be visually attached too.  If there was no "i", there would be no ".".

In standard Latin typography, they are attached in a certain way: The end of a sentence is marked with a full stop, separated by a space, followed by a new sentence beginning with a capital letter. If that is "attachment".

> 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 know that standard Lojban orthography does not make use of sentence- or clause-final punctuation.

Michael

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