From grey.havens@earthling.net Wed Jan 10 02:53:24 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: grey.havens@earthling.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 10 Jan 2001 10:53:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 28683 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2001 10:53:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 10 Jan 2001 10:53:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hermes.epita.fr) (163.5.255.10) by mta2 with SMTP; 10 Jan 2001 10:53:23 -0000 Received: from ding.epx.epita.fr (ding.epx.epita.fr [10.225.7.13]) by hermes.epita.fr id LAA07466 for EPITA Paris France Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:52:48 GMT Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:53:24 +0100 (CET) X-Sender: To: jboste Subject: Re: [lojban] Commas & vowels : to summarise then... In-Reply-To: <20010109223831.A134@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Elrond > My understanding of the recent discussions is that a comma between two > vowels is treated as being equivalent to an apostrophe, both in > pronunciation and in its morphological function. > > So a word like "ba,irgau" is treated as a lujvo, identical to > "ba'irgau". > This puzzles me quite a bit, because so far I have been using the comma to distinguish "ma,ite" from "maite", which IIRC have different pronounciations : the first one is very close to the name of a well-known french cook (Ma=EFt=E9), and the other one is not close to anything I know = of (in terms of names). What I mean here is that I though that the comma was useful for separating two vowels that would otherwise fall off being pronounced as a diphtong, in places where it is unwanted. Comments ? raph