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Re: [engelang] reformulating the core grammar



Am 08.10.2012 17:10, schrieb Jorge Llambías:

q...q is kind of a counterpart to Lojban's ZOI, used to quote "foreign" stuff.

The empty name is funny, however. "la qqa" could
probably be shortened to "la qa" I think.

That would make it ambiguous, as "la qa qa" could be either a full
sentence or just la q(a q)a

Right. That means that "la qqa" must be pronounced as "la qyqa", because it is almost impossible to hear a difference between qqa and qa.

Oh and I forgot to ask about something else. If "y" is the schwa used to break up consonant clusters, then what about the interjections that used to be yV? Are they gone?

Also, could you show me a sensible example of something like "wake"?

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

--
pilno zo le xu .i lo dei bangu cu se cmene zo lojbo .e nai zo lejbo

doị mèlbi mlenì'u
   .i do càtlu ki'u
ma fe la xàmpre ŭu
   .i do tìnsa càrmi
gi'e sìrji se tàrmi
   .i taị bo pu cìtka lo gràna ku


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