Latin orthography has the advantage of many people in th= e world know about it, it's being used a lot in scientific contexts, it's c= ompatible with ASCII, etc.

Negative: Latin letters= are not cultural neutral, they've got history and are a part of West's cul= tural "colonialism" or what you would to call it.

= There is no ortography associated with natural language that is cultural ne= utral, therefore I think it's a great idea to construct a completely new se= t of characters, with no history (yet).

When const= ructing this character set you may, or may not, be inspired by existing wri= ting systems like hangul, japanese, devanagari, arabic etc etc., but I thin= k the result should be something completely different.

Tengwar has the advantage of not being so real-world cultural biased, = but it's still not uniquely associated with lojban. I think lojban shouldn'= t borrow cultural signs from other, fictional or non-fictional, but have th= eir own lojbanic (global) cultural system.

Next qu= estion is: phonemic or ideograms? The advantage of phonemic characters is t= hey're not so many. I like

Skickat fr=E5n min iPhon= e

21 nov 2012 kl. 19:15 skrev MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>:

How does the current standard orthography not meet the= aims of your proposal?

stevo

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:43 PM, charlicopter@gmail.com <lanternsmith@gmail.com&= gt; wrote:

Greetings everyone,
This is my first tim= e visiting the forums...
My curiosity currently lies in the possibility = of a written system that could be developed around Lojban that respects its= logical nature.
As far as I can tell in my rudimentary beginnings as a student of Lojban: T= he language is designed around phonetics in a similar way to Japanese. by t= hat, I mean that the language uses predictable and consistent combinations = of vowel and consonant phonetics in the structure of the constituent word-f= orms.

Preposition: In written Lojban, what if you used a character system sim= ilar to Japanese hiragana and katakana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana&= nbsp; & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana
Japanese Katakana and Hiragana are based on characters which hail from anci= ent cultural influences, but what if you started fresh and designed charact= ers around some kind of logical analysis of Lojbanic structure, syntax, log= ic, etc. such that the characters are themselves always internally consiste= nt and logical? Pictorally speaking, you have many variables to draw upon: = stroke length, angle, curvature, dots, rotation/orientation, etc. certainly= as many variables as are needed to accurately represent the phonetics, syn= tax etc. of the language. In this way, entire gismu might have a chance of = being reduced to single characters which LOOK and FLOW as logically as they= behave.

Thoughts?

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