Re: [lojban] {la .alis.} book

[Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>]

On 27 May 2015, at 14:36, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:

> One question: If you care so much about making the text easier to read aloud, why are you removing all the mandatory glottal stops (i.e. the dots)? Without them, the narrator (performer) is likely to not pronounce them at least for certain cmevla, because you first have to see the entire word and make sure it ends in a consonant to know that you have the pronounce the glottal stop (or pause) before the word (and after it, but that's easier). I understand why you don't want to use dots to mark the glottal stops, but maybe you could use another symbol.

Well, a glottal stop is a consonant, and a pause is a pause. “What is Lojban?" says:

The period is an optional reminder to the reader, representing a mandatory pause dictated by the rules of the language. Such pauses can be of any duration, and are part of the morphology, or word formation rules, and not the grammar.

In general this dot appears before letters which would be capitalized (sentence-initial .i) or surrounding loanwords (.dorotis.) which would be capitalized as well. I’d suggest that the capitalization would be enough of a reminder (and the reminder is described as “optional” anyway though the stop or pause is not).

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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