From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 11 13:24:16 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:24:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0Oly-0000eT-Ic for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:23:58 -0700 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.183]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0Olx-0000eI-JL for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:23:58 -0700 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so3969450pyd for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:23:56 -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=Arkxlo6521Uj+7ppcac2Gw5ynYAit/nF70l9+QdnfLuNxq/d4MFTDGC1oqdGbcx74tH4q3QJA4AQ3B8StlH+Hkk3pdz3O13d4D+1+ZrXeg6QxyAeLbADlSsGCDRLMTKVxO/Rw0wkGDnp2Vb9f1MJy7iw04A3stBBfd+2utOIuPk= Received: by 10.35.99.14 with SMTP id b14mr7115631pym; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.39.7 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:23:56 -0600 From: "Maxim Katcharov" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Alphabet proposal one. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44AD673B.7060501@gmail.com> <925d17560607061651p19623e56x7c188368533f9c48@mail.gmail.com> <20060706235433.GJ18983@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <2d3df92a0607081047i5ba3e2b5ucf79eaf3bed81d4a@mail.gmail.com> <44B21C12.5060806@bilkent.edu.tr> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 12111 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: maxim.katcharov@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 7/11/06, Matt Arnold wrote: > On 7/10/06, Maxim Katcharov wrote: > > On 7/10/06, robin wrote: > > > > Yet each > > of you want to I suppose 'diversify' the language by not specifying an > > official alphabet? I'm confused, and think that I may have missed > > something here. > > > This has already been done. Since the beginning of the language, even > though the Latin alphabet was the official standard, it was > permissable to transcribe into Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Greek > character sets. They even created words for it. The words {ru'o} > {ge'o} {je'o} and {lo'a} are a set of verbal "shift keys". They mean > to dictate to a computer or amanuensis that they should shift > letterals to Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Lojban (Latin) > character sets respectively. > > -epkat > Sigh/resignation. At least they're standardized and limited, which means that all we really need is a simple replacement program. I'm glad for that, but I would have preferred unity, even if it is under the Latin flag. Is there a page that lists the letterals? 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.