On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Mark E. = Shoulson <mark@kli.org= > wrote:

Hanzi for Lojban is an excellent notion (has it already been entertained?) = Hanzi are probably better-suited to Lojban than the Latin alphabet is, and = possibly better-suited to Lojban than they are to Chinese. A fixed, *closed= * number of roots, each representable by a single figure, none needing to b= e related to the others... Sounds good to me.

Finding enough hanzi that are unrelated to= any others is not easy. Maybe the bare radicals... But there are only 214 = radicals (in one common selection).=C2=A0

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Each gismu should have a single official graph, as close as possible in mea= ning. It will never be perfect, but the mapping of sounds to Latin letters = isn't perfect either, to an English-speaker. Rafsi use exactly the same= graph, as you propose, except they're linked together to make lujvo. I= t's reminiscent of the distinct on/kun readings in Japanese, where they= have different pronunciations if they're in compound or other environm= ents. I don't like your ^ because it separates as much as joins, and si= nce there won't be spaces between the graphs in general (or will there?= ) you wind up with lujvo-elements that are more visually separated than adj= acent words. Something like a COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE or COMBINING = DOUBLE BREVE BELOW would be nice, though I'm not sure applying such non= -Han diacritics to Han characters doesn't qualify as an unholy abominat= ion. Something small, some little separator that joins more than it separat= es... Maybe something like =CB=8CMODIFIER LETTER LOW VERTICAL LINE or =CB= =88MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE, squeezed between the rafsi-graphs?

Presumably specific graphs for the cmavo as well. There we lose the cmavo/b= rivla distinction that the Latin writing system gives, with the consonant c= lusters. (what might be cool is to take the cmavo-graphs from katana/hiraga= na, which are visually distinct from the Han graphs, but then you'd win= d up straying pretty far from pronunciation and meaning).

And yes, some kludgy whatever for cmene and fu'ivla (these also suffer,= by never being able to reduce the markedness of being written all funny).<= span class=3D"HOEnZb">

~mark

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