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

[And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com>]

Michael Everson, On 27/05/2015 14:56:
> 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.

And both phonetically realize phoneme /./.

Michael Everson, On 27/05/2015 14:13:
> I lu “Fi la’e di’u,” sei la Maikl pu cusku, “mi so’i va’e tugni” li’u.
>
> But the problem again here is that for consistency (and automation) one would expect:
>
> I lu “Fi la’e di’u,” sei la Maikl pu cusku se'u, “mi so’i va’e tugni” li’u.
>
> Wouldn’t one?

But why would one expect consistency with regard to a grammatical feature that is expressly variable? A rough analogy from English is the omissibility of _that_ from the start of complement clauses (e.g. "He knows (that) she is"): what lunatic would 'regularize' an English text by restoring every omitted _that_? And would you make overt *every* covert terminator?

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