Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id FAA01743 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 05:24:40 -0400 Message-Id: <199509280924.FAA01743@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 5FC26DD7 ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 5:04:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 05:03:37 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: Consonant buffer X-To: BARRETO%VELAHF@ECCSA.TR.UNISYS.COM X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Thu Sep 28 05:24:42 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU It has not been cnsidered optional to use the 'h' instead of the apostrophe. There is an alternate orthography that was intended to be used in a peace settlement with JCB and the Loglan community that would allow this, but no one ever uses the alternate orthography as a whole to my knowledge. And Rosta uses the h vs. apostrophe in his Lojban writings, and violates other conventions as well, Perhaps because he likes being an iconoclast. He has been criticized for this, although his practices ARE fairly close to the alternate orthography. Of course it also means that his Lojban usages often get ignored (all our automated tools will not recognize his texts as being Lojban, so he can't use the parser, or get his usages processed into the dictionary). I don't think anyone besides And uses an alternate orthography. there are a few variations on writing cmavo as compounds vs. separate, but for the most part, Lojban writing is pretty standardized. lojbab