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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 07:39:42PM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote:
> How's this? All Ceqli words begin with C, without exception. Then glottal
> stops are never needed except to keep vowels from merging, or, at least in
> come cases, to make VV's clear, let's say.
Well, I don't like it. That means that a bunch more pinvor have to fit
into CV(V) space - Lojban's V(')V attitudinals - and these are words
which just feel natural to express with vowels. Whee! Aye! Oy!
> >> that our word 'sea' is NEVER pronounced as [seja]--that's
> >> a foreign-accent pronounciation of a possible word 'seya'
> >> --but only as [se.a] or as [sea]--in Spanish there's a
> >
> > It's just the result of my American accent, then. Never mind.
>
> BTW, I'm Southern Indiana dialect. You?
Central New York.
> Speaking of names, I've always had trouble with some of the things Loglan
> considers names. Like one o'clock, for example.
Yes; names like that are a tremendous screwup. That got carried over
into Lojban for a while, but is now abandoned in favor of the much more
logical {ti'u li pa} (at-time the-number 1). 1:30 is then {ti'u li pa
pi'e cino} (at-time 1 separator 30).
Dates get messier, and recently spawned a big-endian/little-endian
debate.
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Rob Speer