From cowan@ccil.org Sun Jan 07 18:18:20 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@locke.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 8 Jan 2001 02:18:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 11200 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2001 02:17:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 8 Jan 2001 02:17:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Jan 2001 02:17:59 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA19945; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:51:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:51:31 -0500 (EST) To: Adam Raizen Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Commas and vowel pairs In-Reply-To: <97894017101@out.newmail.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Adam Raizen wrote: > Since the comma can be and often is used in a place such as > "ban,rkore,a", does that mean that that word can be pronounced > /banhrkorEha/? No. > Can it be written "ban'rkore'a"? No. > Maybe it should > have been specified that the comma can be pronounced as an > apostrophe whenever it's between vowels. Yes. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter