On 27 May 2015, at 16:42, And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, a glottal stop is a consonant, and a pause is a pause.
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> And both phonetically realize phoneme /./.
A pause of indeterminate length is a phoneme?
>> I lu “Fi la’e di’u,” sei la Maikl pu cusku, “mi so’i va’e tugni” li’u.
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>> But the problem again here is that for consistency (and automation) one would expect:
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>> I lu “Fi la’e di’u,” sei la Maikl pu cusku se'u, “mi so’i va’e tugni” li’u.
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>> Wouldn’t one?
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> But why would one expect consistency with regard to a grammatical feature that is expressly variable?
Because Lojban is hard enough and there are no native speakers?
> 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?
It seems to me that a relative pronoun is different from a state process. If lu/li’u is regular, why shouldn’t sei/se’u be?
As I say, it’s your language, but this seems quite inconsistent given the logicalness one might expect.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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