From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jul 07 07:18:00 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:18:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Fyr9H-0001zJ-RD for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:17:39 -0700 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Fyr9F-0001yt-94 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:17:39 -0700 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i2so128081nfe for ; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:17:35 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qZUDyS3SPrIJNVNwNX4dGe6peT8AV6ju40m34GpAH093rXTSmU2J2tZNtoGBGJ47EiPRh2TIOZ73gJ4ptWzivsDxCAE8TL/22/Kd3VV48eJ3aAwOXa5m5TWfaEPQMepBDhDDl/p7qcrrEM3lwZy2hmxjWCii3rJ35n6D7+n4xbQ= Received: by 10.78.138.14 with SMTP id l14mr691908hud; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.159.13 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 07:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:17:34 -0400 From: Betsemes To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Alphabet proposal one. In-Reply-To: <20060707005527.3245.qmail@web81314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <925d17560607061651p19623e56x7c188368533f9c48@mail.gmail.com> <20060707005527.3245.qmail@web81314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 11956 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: betsemes@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list I have been following all of this about featural alphabets for Lojban with interest, but I'm afraid that as a somehow still a beginner, I'm too overwhelmed with the hazards of learning vocabulary to worry on learning a new alphabet. It might be interesting and easy to learn, maybe, but I tend to think it would be a very low priority in my learning schedule. About cultural neutrality, I think as a non linguist that the position of Jorge, Robin and Theodore matches what I would think of cultural neutrality, just use any alphabet that suits you best. But this leads me to think as a computer programmer in terms of portability. If you want to get your message across, you must write in an intelligible way, so that your audience can understand you. So, by such a point of view, I see the value of having an official alphabet for Lojban. This leads me to a question. How is the latin alphabet culturally biased? Is it just because it comes from languages that comes from Latin or is it because some other reason? 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.