From hombre!marob.masa.com!cowan Wed May 9 01:59:24 1990 Return-Path: Received: by marob.masa.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.7) id ; Wed, 9 May 90 01:59 EDT Received: by hombre.MASA.COM (smail2.5) id AA01751; 8 May 90 06:40:44 EDT (Tue) Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.3/3.05) with UUCP id AA12121; Thu, 12 Apr 90 05:32:18 EDT Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore Jan 13 1990) id AA24681; Wed, 11 Apr 90 06:19:14 EDT Received: from snark.UUCP by vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA08915; Wed, 11 Apr 90 05:21:16 EDT Received: by snark.uu.net (smail2.3) id AA27739; 11 Apr 90 04:46:13 EDT (Wed) Received: from RUTGERS.EDU by uunet.uu.net (5.61/1.14) with SMTP id AA08833; Tue, 10 Apr 90 19:42:17 -0400 Received: from phri.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.3/3.05) with UUCP id AA00401; Tue, 10 Apr 90 16:13:09 EDT Received: by phri.UUCP (smail2.5) id AA01539; 10 Apr 90 13:21:59 EST (Tue) Received: by marob.masa.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.7) id ; Tue, 10 Apr 90 12:49 EDT Message-Id: Date: Tue, 10 Apr 90 12:49 EDT From: marob.masa.com!cowan (John Cowan) To: snark.uu.net!lojban-list Subject: Cmene for the Lojban lerfu? Status: RO Does Lojban include these, analogous to the English use of "alpha", "bravo", "charlie", "david", etc? Naturally in Lojban, unique cmene would be needed. If this topic has not yet been considered (I'm pretty ignorant about Lojban), I think it is important that the cmene be easy to distinguish. The Esperanto letter-names, a, bo, co, c^o, do, etc. are very similar to one another and easy to confuse: spelling out a word in Esperanto does nothing to aid in its comprehension. Spelling-out is important in English for people who are hearing-impaired or in noisy environments, and should be equally important in Lojban.