From rob@twcny.rr.com Sun Sep 23 16:12:46 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 23 Sep 2001 23:11:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 1516 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2001 23:11:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 23 Sep 2001 23:11:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout5.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.169) by mta3 with SMTP; 23 Sep 2001 23:12:44 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f8NNCfo16338 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:12:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:11:43 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15lIPx-0000Bx-00 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:12:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:12:09 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] urls in lojban Message-ID: <20010923191209.B689@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <01092318053410.20988@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01092318053410.20988@neofelis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer 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