From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Apr 10 16:11:21 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jk5vN-0001TL-8I for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:21 -0700 Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com ([64.233.178.247]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jk5vI-0001Sx-0n for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:21 -0700 Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k27so159875hsc.2 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=HuZnWzpjTM8U8h96gBRX76fUTQTEhhy1W2tdhAIZF/Y=; b=hXamw04b8o8gZYfEKtgL9kUppgLrevO2mf8aoDiZnNc7K7YnMxl0shlaJb6um91IVRu7hFQxsQru5yvPgAAnk2lUDTQwdCKdLxBssWRK0WNvWsgU1QqnkhyDNTwCVcybLdLzEr9NazrCQuCYdgLH8W/TFGE7hZQmuiHKTjkFmy8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=OERdeC44vqnAaeDTNqlcyyU4PaxO8RXQ2J+IYBFeWfCOybwKeGCbMGkRjYuS2/t67yI0AJZZ/Bced2osI8LGKn8ARohIa1NQKEUVDZG8bEDZECbyYk4V92loykPcqESry1VPBPQzfhF8WuPoXI//H/L2nNgK1fG8T2D/rAfFY70= Received: by 10.100.127.15 with SMTP id z15mr3863846anc.61.1207869070927; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.134.11 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:10 -0700 From: "David Cortesi" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Original orthography draft now online for... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14341 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: davecortesi@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list I'm sorry, but I just do not get it. I'm sure that creating a consistent orthography is a fascinatin' and absorbing artistic project. But what in the world is the sense of taking a language whose syntax is by designed unlike any other, and whose vocabulary is already a challenge to learn using familiar letters for (mostly) familiar sounds, and making it even MORE arcane by writing those letters in a completely new script? Churchill said of Russia, "It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Well, this orthography would be the enigma cloak for the riddle of lojban vocabulary wrapped in the mystery of lojban syntax. 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.