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Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: unicode locale library
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:15:24 -0400
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On Thursday, July 13, 2017 6:58:33 AM EDT sukender1@gmail.com wrote:
> Great job.
>=20
> But I guess this is only the beginning. Standard OS inputs methods should
> have proper dictionaries, and I wish that dictionaries spread out too. It=
's
> already a pain having a proper spelling / grammar checking for widespread
> OSes (Linux, Windows, Android, iOS...) in my mother's tongue language (*)=
,
> so I guess it would be much more difficult for Lojban.

Grammar checking can be done algorithmically, but since the language is fai=
rly=20
young and people are still making up lots of words, a spell checker would b=
e=20
difficult. However, there is no inflection of open classes in Lojban, so th=
ere=20
cannot be arguments like "mosquitoes/mosquitos".

> (*) It's been 27 years that a reform of French orthography has been
> official. However, Android still uses the old one (AFAIK), and Windows le=
t
> you choose the one you want in a deep buried option (which default to
> "old").

I prefer the new way of writing numbers because it makes clear in writing t=
he=20
distinction between e.g. 52/1100 and 50/2100, and I like "cig=C3=BCe, aig=
=C3=BCe, et=20
ambig=C3=BCe" better than "cigu=C3=AB, aigu=C3=AB, et ambigu=C3=AB". But so=
me words just look=20
wrong without their circumflex. i to la'o fy. cig=C3=BCe .fy. cu vindu ruls=
antyspa=20
.i la'o fy. aig=C3=BCe .fy. cu kinli .i la'o fy. ambig=C3=BCe .fy. cu smuvr=
ici

mu'omi'e .piier.
--=20
lo ponse be lo mruli ku po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko

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