From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Dec 29 14:34:35 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:34:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J8kGJ-0002Hn-5a for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:34:35 -0800 Received: from web56401.mail.re3.yahoo.com ([216.252.111.80]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J8kGB-0002Gg-TH for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:34:34 -0800 Received: (qmail 38563 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Dec 2007 22:34:21 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=qQ9CTKIMy3dorGAL+3MGHNSZbLDLy13L80wnCKHRPMY8/PTE3Y4FR97SRyzU+PhruDhSLNozAlh1TlZdbIbDvFiak15cM28jEu8XR2FZyGvHqFEKt2VSbijVEcDSpCPDor5l7ritDbCYcJQcS6+K2l25cboy0Q1NVVohLrB8/CU=; X-YMail-OSG: hhUFa.8VM1nY5.WZDO4NblyZbba6lFNdrpNt9qfLwPqO.ZI_CItCLVy.kwwwz5SsgwYJrlUhaKG5yzsYUFR3pWsYlys_ZRv8mpdo4Bir.HweRZSo24waF150Eb8Nqg-- Received: from [69.209.225.7] by web56401.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:34:21 PST Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:34:21 -0800 (PST) From: Nathaniel Krause Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Orthography To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-2000344679-1198967661=:38228" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <266107.38228.qm@web56401.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 78 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: nathanielkrause@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners --0-2000344679-1198967661=:38228 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Danny wrote: Is there much of a push for alternative scripts for Lojban? I have been particularly interested in learning about using Tengwar instead of the more traditional Latin script. I wouldn't say there's a push to use alternative scripts. Few seem very dissatisfied with Lojban's Roman script. I don't know how much Lojban text has ever been written in another script other than for purposes of demonstrating how to use it (perhaps there is some writing in Cyrillic?) I seem to be more interested than the rest of Lojbanistan in trying to write Lojban in other real-world scripts. I have previously worked out methods for writing it in Tibetan script and in Devanagari, and I've recently been working on a version of the Manchu (similar to Mongol) alphabet that would support Lojban (unlike Tibetan and Devanagari Lojban, my Manchu writing requires a few extra diacritics not found in the original in order to fully unambiguous). I believe it would be possible to develop a method for writing Lojban using Chinese characters, but it would require a lot of work from someone with a very thorough knowledge. I figure you would need to assign at least one character for each word and one for each rafsi. mu'o mi'e .sen. --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. --0-2000344679-1198967661=:38228 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Danny <feedmecereal@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there much of a push for alternative scripts for Lojban? I have
been particularly interested in learning about using Tengwar instead
of the more traditional Latin script.

I wouldn't say there's a push to use alternative scripts. Few seem very dissatisfied with Lojban's Roman script. I don't know how much Lojban text has ever been written in another script other than for purposes of demonstrating how to use it (perhaps there is some writing in Cyrillic?)

I seem to be more interested than the rest of Lojbanistan in trying to write Lojban in other real-world scripts. I have previously worked out methods for writing it in Tibetan script and in Devanagari, and I've recently been working on a version of the Manchu (similar to Mongol) alphabet that would support Lojban (unlike Tibetan and Devanagari Lojban, my Manchu writing requires a few extra diacritics not found in the original in order to fully unambiguous).

I believe it would be possible to develop a method for writing Lojban using Chinese characters, but it would require a lot of work from someone with a very thorough knowledge. I figure you would need to assign at least one character for each word and one for each rafsi.

mu'o mi'e .sen.

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