From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 08 05:44:27 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JjDBb-0006F4-62 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:44:27 -0700 Received: from devbraindump.de ([62.75.244.23] helo=nyx.devbraindump.de) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JjDBQ-0005vy-OE for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:44:27 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (p549F27D4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.159.39.212]) by nyx.devbraindump.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0499DBE64014 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:44:10 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <47FB688B.7080206@devbraindump.de> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:43:55 +0200 From: Florian Larysch User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071009) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Original orthography draft now online for critique References: <597165.55778.qm@web81305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <008301c8980d$ebe96f00$6c8e6d0a@Starlight> <200804061518.25329.phma@phma.optus.nu> <47FA4CFA.1000106@devbraindump.de> <702226df0804071423l2e4166dcg8019b132933e87f3@mail.gmail.com> <702226df0804072142i40fdfa80nfd42d54614671a3d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <702226df0804072142i40fdfa80nfd42d54614671a3d@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / > o = current .abu. with (not actually) a fricative stroke (hereafter accent). I actually liked the grouping of the sounds as it was in rev1 (although slightly incorrect, I could have lived with l/r), but rev2 is also fine. Still, I'd prefer keeping the flick as a voicing marker. X-archive-position: 14336 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: florolf@devbraindump.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list (continuing to type after some discussion on #lojban) I've put together a custom version of the characters I like the most: http://florolf.devbraindump.de/fud/lojbo/lerfu.jpg although replacing the r by a flicked l would further decrease the number of different glyphs. Although I haven't tried it yet in a larger text, breaking characters is a) harder to write (although that might just be me..) and b) makes the text look (as Lakmir then put it) caffeinated. .u'i After all, backtracking or just stopping after a flicked character isn't hard enough to justify sacrificing one of the script's main attributes: Beauty. mu'omi'e florolf 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.