From bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM Fri Jan 19 09:41:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: bob@rattlesnake.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_1_2); 19 Jan 2001 17:41:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 26147 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2001 17:36:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 19 Jan 2001 17:36:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO megalith.rattlesnake.com) (140.186.114.245) by mta3 with SMTP; 19 Jan 2001 18:37:43 -0000 Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.111) for lojban@egroups.com; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:36:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:36:27 -0500 (EST) To: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca Cc: graywyvern@hotmail.com, lojban@egroups.com In-reply-to: <20010119114611.C29655@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (message from Robin Lee Powell on Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:46:11 -0500) Subject: Re: [lojban] speech synthesizer Reply-to: bob@rattlesnake.com References: <20010119114611.C29655@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> From: "Robert J. Chassell" I've been wondering: why _does_ lojban use ' instead of h? Because the sound is not really an h and because it is not a consonant. The use of h in in place of ' is somewhat misleading. I myself dislike the use of ' but I cannot think of any better solution to the problem it solves and understand why Lojbab et al chose it. There is an alternative, non-ambiguous way of writing Lojban that does not require as many ' but it is harder to learn. In this alternative, you may drop ' from places where it can be determined from other info, such as the particular letters you are using, that it is necessary the ' be there. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com