On 28 May 2015 23:06, "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
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> On 27 May 2015, at 18:49, And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> A pause of indeterminate length is a phoneme?
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> > A pause of indeterminate length is phonetic realization of a phoneme.
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> As you wish. I love oddball linguistics. :-)
It's hardly as I wish; I think it's moronic. Almost all of the language is other than I would wish it to be.
> > sei/se'u is regular; it just is regular according to rules less simple than you would prefer.
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> Well, it does make it impossible to apply punctuation automatically, since the only way that one could do so is to have a script that would parse a variable-lengths string following “sei” to find the word of the selbri class. Not that the application of punctuation is a goal of Lojban.
Indeed. Your project is somewhat quixotic.
I wish Lojban did less violence to prevailing typographical and orthographical conventions. I hate that sodding apostrophe, that makes the written language so instantly recognizable. But it is what it is, and if it were what I wish it were, it would be an utterly different language.
--And.
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