From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jul 07 10:28:43 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:28:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Fyu7r-0005kg-Ro for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:28:24 -0700 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Fyu7n-0005kY-Ea for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:28:21 -0700 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x30so150175nfb for ; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:28:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Zi0a0+ptojkmlanc7UGiAJI+INU7MJojFClzVngJapK1VzVA+m+zP1p1VyhRMd8NaZ0bWF6zsKe9Dh9q4zRglH5r0iixX4iIlkKSvdqTLMomCpRqIJcUJh+6i9ld4nYpMkNBYlRwGHbzIxTSNPLnhTyEHX2/80+EymXnSSd62So= Received: by 10.78.166.7 with SMTP id o7mr815740hue; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.33.3 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <12d58c160607071028v5702cf38ia93c8ebe8e565f71@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:28:16 -0400 From: "komfo,amonan" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Alphabet proposal one. In-Reply-To: <20060707164405.44652.qmail@web81311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_49267_13717315.1152293296576" References: <12d58c160607070930l59d5ed26kf1bb8267f38d0c20@mail.gmail.com> <20060707164405.44652.qmail@web81311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e2af02533f53e0a8 X-Spam-Score: -1.7 (-) X-archive-position: 11966 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: komfoamonan@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------=_Part_49267_13717315.1152293296576 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 7/7/06, John E Clifford wrote: > > The point being that many people who speak -- and write -- those other > languages also know the > Latin alphabet -- for English (etc.) perhaps, but also for their own > languages, whether officially > or not (even fifty years ago, most advertising signs in India were in Latin > characters as well as > Devanagiri and it has only gotten more so since, and we won't bother > noting Pinyin). Please *do* note Pinyin. I didn't think it was used much in PRC in contexts where there wouldn't be western tourists or business travelers. In other words, that the average Chinese person doesn't know pinyin or have much use for it. It's a bit OT, but I'd love to have your insight on or off the list about this. mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan ------=_Part_49267_13717315.1152293296576 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 7/7/06, John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
The point being that many people who speak -- and write -- those other languages also know the
Latin alphabet -- for English (etc.) perhaps, but also for their own languages, whether officially
or not
(even fifty years ago, most advertising signs in India were in Latin characters as well as
Devanagiri and it has only gotten more so since, and we won't bother noting Pinyin).

Please *do* note Pinyin. I didn't think it was used much in PRC in contexts where there wouldn't be western tourists or business travelers. In other words, that the average Chinese person doesn't know pinyin or have much use for it. It's a bit OT, but I'd love to have your insight on or off the list about this.

mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan
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