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

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

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 10:19:05AM -0700, Christopher Doty wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 09:49, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>wrote:
> 
> > What did I say that was different than that?
> >
> > All vowel-initial words in Lojban are required to start with a
> > pause, which is often rendered as a glottal stop.  It is not
> > *required* in writing, but it is generally considered good style
> > in writing for publication and such.  Everson appeared to be
> > asserting that the "." in ".i" was a sentence-ending pause,
> > which simply isn't correct.
> 
> Oh, I think I misunderstood/misread, and thought you were using
> "full stop" to refer to a glottal stop, rather than the
> orthographic form. You just meant that the writing of the full
> stop was optional?

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but writing of "." in
Lojban is optional, but considered good style by most.  Lojban has
no "full stop" as distinct from "glottal stop" or "pause"; it just
hase ".", which can be expressed as any of those.

-Robin

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