From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Dec 06 23:02:26 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 06 Dec 2002 23:02:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18KYyk-0002Li-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 23:02:22 -0800 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:02:22 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Aesthetics Message-ID: <20021207070222.GL28980@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20021207014913.C85943-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021207014913.C85943-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3202 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:56:10AM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, And Rosta wrote: > > My own preference is to omit as much as possible, including all > > fullstops and most apostrophes > > Eliding apostrophies is just plain rude. It forces the reader, likely > to already have his hands full, to identify the impossible dipthongs; > it requires an intimacy with Lojban. It probably requires both intimacy with Lojban and fast visual reconstruction, which as I have already said puts me out. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u jmaji le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi