From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Sun Mar 18 22:04:06 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 19 Mar 2001 06:04:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 7116 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2001 06:04:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 19 Mar 2001 06:04:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 19 Mar 2001 06:04:05 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id BAA22844 for lojban@onelist.com; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 01:10:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 01:10:53 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] The Dvorak of Lojban? Message-ID: <20010319011052.M3953@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@onelist.com References: <3AB57BB0.20509@Rose-Hulman.Edu> <20010318223020.T3953@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <01031822495700.04993@neofelis> <20010318230459.Z3953@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <3AB590DF.F9F8D3E1@geocities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AB590DF.F9F8D3E1@geocities.com>; from swiftrain@GEOCITIES.COM on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:53:51PM -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:53:51PM -0500, SwiftRain wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > Would anyone be annoyed/find it confusing if some people used h > > instead of ' in the same way that some people drop . in written > > lojban? > > I find it equally easy to read text with h and text with '. The only > reason why I prefer ' is because it makes Lojban look like Hawaiian and > I think that's cool. > OTOH, I see absolutely no reason to drop the full stops. I'm suspicious > that the people who do that aren't pronouncing them when they talk -- it > took me a while to get used to saying it but now it feels to me like a > sound in the language, not just a tacked on requirement. I definately agree, but the people in question KNOW (grin) that they know the rules for putting them back in in speech. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP