From phma@webjockey.net Thu Oct 10 09:36:26 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 10 Oct 2002 16:36:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 83972 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2002 15:09:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Oct 2002 15:09:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 2002 15:09:43 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17zf0I-0004cI-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:13:34 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17zewN-0004Zg-00; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:09:31 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:09:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=neofelis.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17zewK-0004ZP-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:09:28 -0700 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id A54673C5D9; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:04:14 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban-list@lojban.org (lojban-list) Subject: [lojban] Re: [Announcement] The Alice Translation Has Moved And Changed Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:04:12 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200210101424.KAA00744@mail2.reutershealth.com> In-Reply-To: <200210101424.KAA00744@mail2.reutershealth.com> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0210101104121D.02775@neofelis> X-archive-position: 2110 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@webjockey.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:11, John Cowan wrote: li'o > 7) Lojban uses dots at the beginnings of words. :-) Catalan uses dots in the middles of words, as in "gal.les" Cymraeg, to indicate that the l's are two hard l's, not one soft one. (The dot is supposed to be raised, but I can't type that.) Several languages, notably Bantu but I've also seen it in Portuguese and Irish, capitalize letters in the middle of words. phma