From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Apr 11 07:02:33 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JkJpp-0003ry-Ac for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:02:33 -0700 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.235]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JkJph-0003p4-0w for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:02:32 -0700 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c48so553712wra.1 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:02:23 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=HVGH06jkz5hddJTi8Le2Knxb3Tjar33xNmU0975GkT4=; b=jS1lXZKwEsS2sH/5/BeO2DYuJ3HMIjdOnInkkXmTYZuuXpSH8SXTssLf4ZZys2FSJR+S2na8Qii/QYHPtPzag4ZVZ1lk7fjLl4tsH/8BvVfANILLFOZeu/Sf/NDL21hfI73ADLEN7hoVWyFmJfaazgM0TW4UNzX4OkbNMKg1gQs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kNZRiNpwD20CarxIHANo5X6m2m3ew5It9pQ3fT7xVMWe7+2kPgb4EMPvPRK2IM+mo/IC78I76BoEtd7zhZMcREXNCpWyrMhgp+iyOpbRqYoa5lEvJnML/EsQ6tx7uAiGE4VBhoX7AnN72z3vFSlsHF5EcMU4H7/ydgmOkkPPrzQ= Received: by 10.140.171.4 with SMTP id t4mr1498680rve.230.1207922543086; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.87.17 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <96f789a60804110702x12bf69f4te52698b058951d16@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:02:23 -0400 From: "Michael Turniansky" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Original orthography draft now online for... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / Boy, am I glad someone else said this! With all dure respect to those who are coming from a non-Roman-alphabet background, if I had to learn a whole new alphabet, I never would have looked into lojban. --gejyspa X-archive-position: 14343 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:11 PM, David Cortesi wrote: > 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. > > 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.