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on 4/27/02 12:14 PM, uaxuctum at uaxuctum@hidden.email wrote: > --- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: >> Does Lojban use the letter 'h', or just ' and x? > > AFAIK, it uses <h> as the UPPERcase version of > letter <'>, so that 'ki'o' becomes 'KIhO' in caps. > > It doesn't use 'h' as a separate letter because > phoneme /h/ is already represented by letter <'>. > > Lojban's quite absurd use of <h> is surely one of its > main orthographical inconveniences, since no word > processor will convert ' into h using a lowercase- > into-uppercase conversion option nor recognize <h> > as the uppercase counterpart of <'>. I have to admit, that's the silliest thing yet about Lojban. Also the problem of alphabetization. Actually, it's not as bad as I'd feared ? I thought they had x and two 'h' sounds. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/