Definitions
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- noun Lojban grammar a letter of the alphabet, or similar symbol.
- noun the name of a letteral, such as omega for Ω; letteral word
Etymologies
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Coined by James Cooke Brown from letter, by analogy with numeral.
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Examples
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"Ach" stands as the lower limit in German of voice enlisted, made letteral, as discourse, sound made not just sensed but sensible — what Agamben calls in the etymological sense "literalized" ( "Philosophy and Linguistics" 65).
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The misspelling of the single t, in short, is a graphic miscue that changes the phonemic weight of an adjacent vowel within a strictly letteral code.
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