Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com ([209.85.213.189]:64766) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S73sf-0002wQ-62; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:57:42 -0700 Received: by yenm3 with SMTP id m3sf5867912yen.16 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:57:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3U8x908Ykddw6+OPodJ7zktySjlYBXsSwboW+8ydkSc=; b=3DuIrITRA4y1LyQYkIjmQXJNigmWZhqzccFKo2mVqDp5AME8GkXKp/cQI4N40rGhXc a/uEoy3ZJp/rhUkTQrHvwoolRGGI+0xOsAVWjtZi8S1S051WaQBINs3GhNyMzXsP0PPv OJ+pqUQ1xGH8FW4zOJCBFj2L5WxMM091GtKIA= Received: by 10.68.131.37 with SMTP id oj5mr1349413pbb.12.1331553446469; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:57:26 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.68.28.170 with SMTP id c10ls706084pbh.3.gmail; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.235.4 with SMTP id ui4mr734625pbc.3.1331553445690; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.235.4 with SMTP id ui4mr734624pbc.3.1331553445679; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com (mail-pz0-f42.google.com [209.85.210.42]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6si19217507pbg.2.2012.03.12.04.57.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of felipeg.assis@gmail.com designates 209.85.210.42 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.210.42; Received: by mail-pz0-f42.google.com with SMTP id g27so5256216dan.29 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.190.8 with SMTP id gm8mr1116166pbc.146.1331553445510; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.189.133 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:57:25 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] footnotes, etc? From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Felipe_Gon=E7alves_Assis?= To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: felipeg.assis@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of felipeg.assis@gmail.com designates 209.85.210.42 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=felipeg.assis@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / > lojbanic principles? I remember one of the big deal ones being that for a > given speech stream, there is one spelling for it, and vice versa. Audiovisual isomorphism should by no means get in the way of, e.g., presenting information in tables or sidenotes, or writing concrete poetry. A printed text need not correspond to a single linear stream of utterances. mu'o mi'e .asiz. On 12 March 2012 01:06, Marjorie Scherf wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 21:35, John E. Clifford wro= te: >> >> Point? =A0You don't use footnotes in spoken anything. =A0In written anyt= hing, >> you use the standard footnote conventions. =A0Loglan long ago (1960) had= an >> array of typesetting cmavo which were soon discarded as totally >> irrelevant;why bring them back? >> >> Sent from my iPad >> > > > So if I'm understanding John correctly here, I can write a book in (or > translate a book into) lojban, use little asterisks or superscript number= s, > and have the matching ones at the bottom of the page, and it would still = be > considered good, grammatical lojban? > > At first this is surprising, but when I try to think up my objections, th= ey > seem to come down to orthography rather than grammar. For example, an > orthography which didn't use "Arabic" numerals probably wouldn't use them= to > mark footnotes, at least not in the ordered, numerical way they are meant > when they are used with the Roman letters typically used for English. Tho= ugh > the same symbols may well be commandeered for use as random symbols to be > used like asterisks. Though I don't know any actual standard conventions = for > such things in other than English, so I could be wrong even about this. B= ut > my point with this hypothetical example is that typesetting is much more > closely linked to the orthography than the grammar. Supposing I or someon= e > else made a whole new orthography that worked entirely differently than > anything I've actually seen or heard of before, I'd have the exact same > typography questions to answer all over again anyway. > > So I suppose the question becomes, then, would an orthography (including > such typesetting conventions) be considered "valid" according to the vari= ous > lojbanic principles? I remember one of the big deal ones being that for a > given speech stream, there is one spelling for it, and vice versa. Though= it > has been a while since I read those things, and I might not be rememberin= g > it or it's accepted interpretation correctly. > > .imu'omi'e .skaryzgik. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "lojban" group. > To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=3Den. --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegrou= ps.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban= ?hl=3Den.