From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Dec 17 18:21:10 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from [65.246.141.151] (helo=mail2.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18OTpK-0000IQ-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:20:50 -0800 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA24352; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:34:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200212171634.LAA24352@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:22:07 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: [lojban] Re: Baseline statement To: Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:22:07 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org ('lojban-list@lojban.org') In-Reply-To: from "Newton, Philip" at Dec 14, 2002 01:18:31 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 3574 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Newton, Philip scripsit: > Possibly also not unambiguous; look at this quote from the "Hiragana" page: > "Syllables with final "-u" can (also) stand for consonants." Yeah, to work well for non-Japanese, kana desperately needs a virama. -- With techies, I've generally found John Cowan If your arguments lose the first round http://www.reutershealth.com Make it rhyme, make it scan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Then you generally can jcowan@reutershealth.com Make the same stupid point seem profound! --Jonathan Robie