From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Fri Jan 19 17:55:08 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@newmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_1_2); 20 Jan 2001 01:55:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 36566 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2001 01:55:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 20 Jan 2001 01:55:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO out.newmail.net) (212.150.51.26) by mta2 with SMTP; 20 Jan 2001 01:55:07 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.252.12.113]) by out.newmail.net ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 03:54:34 +0200 To: "Lojban@Egroups. Com" , "Robin Lee Powell" Subject: RE: [lojban] speech synthesizer Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:53:49 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20010119123645.F29655@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-eGroups-From: "And Rosta" From: "And Rosta" > > Morphologically, "h" would suggest a consonant, but ' works more like > > a diacritic on a vowel-pair, like the French trema. > > > > It's still _incredibly_ obnoxious when computing. > > -Robin There's some semi-official alternative orthography, devised to assuage JCB's and TLI Loglanists' distate for <'>. I forget whether it replaces <'> with or drops it altogether. (I *think* it's mentioned in the refgram, but my copy is proximate to a sleeping spouse who would awake with ire were I to attempt to consult it at this hour.) --And.