Return-Path: Message-Id: <9208051555.AA26268@relay1.UU.NET> Date: Wed Aug 5 15:49:44 1992 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: The Kalevala etc X-To: VILVA@VIIKKI21.HELSINKI.FI X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Wed Aug 5 15:49:44 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.bitnet!LOJBAN On quoting music: We had enough trouble with standardizing Mex. I don't even want to think about what it would take to devise a standard musical notation that could cover all musics. At least one Lojbanist that I know of, John Chalmers is into experimental music that does not use the standard scale, and indeed, I suspect that the 'standard scale' is found only in Western music, though I'm anything but a music expert. I would prefer to let people use lo'u/le'u quotes and/or zoi quotes and develop their own systems for now. Lojban's "do re mi" may spring up naturally as a result. (There are plenty of experimental cmavo - the xVV words, and the Cvvv... words, to play with, if you don;t want to overlap existing cmavo - or you could do something with numbers, perhaps.) lojbab