From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 14 17:15:43 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 14 May 2003 17:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19G6PC-0002rG-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:15:30 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:15:30 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one. Message-ID: <20030515001530.GV3216@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030514214459.GI3216@digitalkingdom.org> <5.2.0.9.0.20030514200633.03c923e0@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030514200633.03c923e0@pop.east.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 5263 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 Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:10:30PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > At 03:58 PM 5/14/03 -0700, Jorge "Llamb?as" 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 Uuuhhh, if a comma seperating a syllable is a sound, then syllabic emphasis most certainly is. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui