From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Sep 08 13:52:02 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EDTNA-0000kZ-QS for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:51:52 -0700 Received: from web81307.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.82]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EDTN7-0000kQ-6E for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:51:52 -0700 Received: (qmail 28252 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Sep 2005 20:51:47 -0000 Message-ID: <20050908205147.28250.qmail@web81307.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.88.32.165] by web81307.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:51:47 PDT Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:51:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John E Clifford Subject: [lojban] Re: Orthography To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-archive-position: 10538 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: clifford-j@sbcglobal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list OK, "no reason intrinsic to the Lojban project." There are probably several (and this one is interesting) reason for doing new alphabets, including for the Hell of it. --- Matt Arnold wrote: > > > > Yeah, there is no real need for yet another > way > > of writing Lojban, even a another way that is > > only for Lojban. > > > My personal reason is that I want to decorate > faux-ancient artifacts from an > extinct advanced civilization with a strange > and alien advanced language. > For instance, I intend to have a little > translation session at the next > Penguicon to entice fans of Stargate into > Lojban, in which we decipher a > series of glyphs carved in a plaque. > -epkat > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.