From lojbab@lojban.org Wed May 14 17:12:28 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 14 May 2003 17:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao03.cox.net ([68.1.17.242]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19G6M3-0002pc-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:12:15 -0700 Received: from bob.lojban.org ([68.100.92.1]) by lakemtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030515001143.FXGB23518.lakemtao03.cox.net@bob.lojban.org> for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 20:11:43 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030514200633.03c923e0@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: rlechevalier@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:10:30 -0400 To: lojban-list@lojban.org From: Robert LeChevalier Subject: [lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one. In-Reply-To: <20030514225857.67539.qmail@web20506.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030514214459.GI3216@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 5262 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list At 03:58 PM 5/14/03 -0700, Jorge "Llambías" wrote: >la camgusmis cusku di'e > > I mean, seriously. The language adds, what, 23 symbols?, just to > > represent syllabic stress. It's ridiculous. > >I only use five: A, E, I, O and U. I find your approach acceptable. I don't much like a separate character like exclamation point. One character, one sound is the current standard, and no sort of extraneous punctuation that is not a representation of a sound has caught on for Lojban (assuming that the close-comma is defined as a glide). lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org