Subject: Re: [lojban] urls in lojban

From: Rob Speer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:12:09 -0400

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:05:34PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Sunday 23 September 2001 17:56, Craig wrote:
> > How do you pronounce a w when spelling them out?
> 
> w is {vybu}, q is {kybu}, and h is {y'ybu}. What if I don't want to spell 
> every letter out? Like {vybu vybu vybu denpa bu lojban denpa bu com}, 
> assuming that the listener knows how to spell {lojban} and {com}? Is there a 
> proper way to say this?

Since a URL is not a sentence, you can just put it inside lo'u...le'u (as tsali
did). Then what you said would work.

(Incidentally, {denpa bu} sounds much like someone saying 'w w w period...' or
'w w w full stop...' in English. Would {pibu} work?)
-- 
Rob Speer