What is the problem of using the apostrophe, which is effectively a
consonant, instead of the other consonant letters, at the end of a
cmevla?
mu'o mi'e vid
I agree. And that's why I would like to understand the rationale for
adding the apostrophe before saying whether I'm for it or against it.
The apostrophe is not quite as absurd as the comma, because it is
pronounced. So {la meri'} would sound different from {la meri}, but
close enough to
Yoav Nir wrote:
I have no problem with that, but it's not a regular consonant.
I'm all for allowing anything that would better align lojban names with
a person's real name (in their native language). But how does the
apostrophe help? How would you pronounce it?
As Elmo said, why not allow
On Jan 16, 2008 12:57 PM, Elmo Todurov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vid Sintef wrote:
What is the problem of using the apostrophe, which is effectively a
consonant,
It is not. It's special, just like y and . and ,.
Yes it is special. But nonetheless it's a consonant pronounced as
either /h/ or
On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote:
Yoav Nir schrieb:
coi rodo
jbovlaste has a distinction between preferred only valsi and
all valsi. There are, for example, 339 preferred works starting
with 'c' but 598 words in general that start with 'c'.
I have two questions:
1. What
Jorge Llambías wrote:
I also used to receive an announcement every time someone edited a
wiki page, but lately I don't anymore, and I can't find how to change
my settings for that either. That was useful to keep up with what was
going on on the wiki.
There's an extra mailinglist just for
2008/1/16 Timo Paulssen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Jorge Llambías wrote:
I also used to receive an announcement every time someone edited a
wiki page, but lately I don't anymore, and I can't find how to change
my settings for that either. That was useful to keep up with what was
going on on the
That makes sense. I voted for ckupau (and fixed it a little) and now
it's a preferred word.
Thanks.
On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:12 AM, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
When jbovlaste was created, the lujvo from noralujv were mass
imported.
However, most of them suck. Hard. Things like:
kuncpastu
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:58, Alex Martini wrote:
Let's pull out the long linguistics words now. Phonotactics: the
allowed sound combinations in a given language. For example, English
would allow the nonsense word feep and lek, but not pferd or
rmla. As a speaker of English, the rules
Vid Sintef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the problem of using the
apostrophe, which is effectively a
consonant, instead of the other consonant letters, at the end of a
cmevla?
mu'o mi'e vid
' only occurs directly between vowels. A cmevla must always end in a consonant
followed by a
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