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Re: BPFK Section: Hesitation
OK, so what do we do about ".y."?

I'm of the opinion (caused by xorxes' arguments) that it should be as extragramattical (sp?) as it can possibly be. It is ridiculous to assert that someone who says "zo .y. pavyseljirna" is actually saying "zo .y. cu pavyseljirna".

I think that ".y." should be treated a pure whitespace everywhere except before a "bu". And, frankly, I'd rather get rid of that, too, so that if you want to talk about ".y." you have to say "zoi zoi .y. zoi". For the letter we could say "depsna bu" or something. It'd be nice to drop ".y'y." as well at that point, and say that "y" can only appear inside words; the letter could be "jbini bu" or something.

Huh. It appears that Lojban has no gismu for "vowels". Anyways.

I'd like to know how much support there is for either of these ideas. Repeating:

1. .y. is ignored as whitespace everywhere except before a "bu".

2. .y. is ignored absolutely everywhere; if we're going to do that we might as well drop the one other word in the language (.y'y.) that begins or ends with .y. as well for morphological simplicity.

Once I know if either of these might pass a vote, I'll get seriously to work on the magic words.

-Robin